I really need you to consider this rephrase of Hamlet's monologue "To Be or not To Be" and help me check it.
I added a few more things and I'd like know your opinion. Thank you.
1)Hamlet wonders if it is better to bear the slings and arrows of outragous fortune, that is to obstain from action or to make a stand (fight) against his mass of troubles.
2) He can oppose his troubles either by committing suicide or by killing Claudius.
3) Two philosophical positions, which remain (?) unreconciled in Hamlet's monologue, are expressed in the first lines: one is the Stoic attitude of enduring life's evils and misfortune at all costs and to an end; the either is the belief that, man may end life by suicide (I think not only by suicide but by killing Claudius too!!).
4) The idea of death as a sleep, typical of the medieval perspective, is then countered by the doubt of the Renaissance man about what there may be beyond life (or the doubt of the Renaissance man concerning the life after death).
5) Actually, the Bible uses such images as "sleep in the dust" for death and the Burial Service refers (referred) to death as a sleep. Shakespeare's audience was perfectly familiar with such images.
1 answer
"slings and arrows"
"outrageous fortune"
Use this for help if you need it: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/page_138.html