tailieunhanh - Express yourself part 15

The undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue or resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And entrerprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. 1. Find the line or lines which tell us that Hamlet is thinking about being dead. . | The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue or resolution Is sicklied o er with the pale cast of thought And entrerprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. 1. Find the line or lines which tell us that Hamlet is thinking about being dead. 2. Find the line or lines which suggest that he views dying as the easy way out of a problem. 3. Find the line which suggests that Hamlet is worried about what may come after death. 4. How does Hamlet characterize death 5. How does Hamlet regard his conscience 6. What do the lines And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o er with the pale cast of thought mean 129 Writing About Drama express yourself 7. Explain the metaphor for death that Hamlet uses in the opening lines. 8. What is the resolution to the opening question How is reading this soliloquy different from reading it as if it were a poem Without the benefit of the plot and setting it could be a poem. But it does have a setting a plot sequence and characterization to breathe life into it. Once you know that Hamlet is considering suicide because he is so upset about his situation and that he is considering murdering his uncle to avenge his father s death you read these lines about death and dying with much more power and intensity. Indeed the playwright gives us a far more powerful presentation about the conflict between conscience and behavior because these lines are spoken by a man not merely written. Thus when we listen to this man feeling the need to kill himself because life has been so brutal to him we hear his pain. When he talks of sleep as a metaphor for death and he considers dreams as a logical consequence of sleep therefore even in death there may be something beyond peace we hear his fear. And when he tells