Question

[Hamlet:] . . . who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscover’d country from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will

–Hamlet,
William Shakespeare

What does Hamlet mean when he refers to the "undiscover’d country"?

the afterlife
Denmark
foreign lands
his own mind

Answer 1

the afterlife

Hamlet is calling death an "undiscover'd country"—an unknown realm beyond life ("something after death") from which no one returns to tell what it's like, and that uncertainty makes him hesitate.