In the sililoque "To be, or not to be" Hamlet wonders whether it is better to live with misery or die with uncertainty. Life is nothing but suffering and enduring fortune's unfair blows. Suicide is the ultimate defense against life's troubles. Suicide offers peaceful sleep; but what dreams may interrupt that sleep? Hamlet is afraid of the uncertain afterlife and those unknown nightmares that may be in store. Death offers peace, but the dreaded unknown makes men too cowardly to commit suicide. Hamlet expresses a longing for an escape from this world to an another. It seems as if he fears that he has sinn

The imagery that this sililoque creates is that of different epics and stories. The image that line 66 gives is that of the duel scenes for land between the cousins from the epic Mahabharat. The image that line 67 can be related to is to the epic The Odyssey. The scene were the ship is being swallowed by the underwater mouth, yet the travelers on the ship are persistent to continue seems to give the image of a person who "takes arms against a sea of troubles" (l. 67). The other images that are conveyed through this sililoque are that of a deprressed person whom can not seem to find a way out of this state other that sleeping forever, dying. Yet, even after death he thinks his soul will not rest in peace and he will have bad dreams, which all will feel like reality. This person seems to be hurt from not only family but also a lover. Hamlet uses such images to enable his audience to view how he really feels deep down. Hamlets feelings of being hurt from a loved one, Ophelia, are portryed in line 80 " despised love" and in lines 97-98 "The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons/ Be all my sins remember'd." He feels hurt due to Ophelia turni

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Approximate Word count = 768
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)