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Hamlet, The skull scene, è meglio soffrire i colpi di una fortuna avversa,…
Hamlet, The skull scene
Act 3, scene 1.
Hamlet is agitated after meeting the ghost of his father. He is trying to understand what really happened, and wants to prove the guilt of Claudius. He is shocked for everything that is happening, and feels the heavy burden of revenge that his father put on his shoulders.
Hamlet, talking loud with a skull in his hand, makes his reflections about the sense of living. He is very pessimistic and thinks life is too hard and cruel for everyone to be tolerated. Suicide would be the best solution to end the suffering. But we don't do that beacuse we are scared of what we could find in the afterlife. We must remember that the ghost told Hamlet he was in a terrible place.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
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The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
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That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
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When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
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For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
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That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
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With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
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No traveller returns, puzzles the will
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Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
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With this regard their currents turn awry,
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è meglio soffrire i colpi di una fortuna avversa, o prendere le armi contro di essa e porre fine a tutto?
morire, dormire, forse sognare: ecco il problema. Perchè quali sogni potrebbero venire quando abbiamo lasciato il nostro corpo?
qui Amleto fa tutto un elenco di sofferenze: le pene d'amore, i ritardi della legge, i torti degli oppressori.... perchè sopportarli quando basta un pugnale? ("a bare bodkin")
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