Hamlet Soliloquy 4: To be, or not to be (Act 3 Sc 1)
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- Context: Pre 00:32
- Comprehension Check 01:46
- ANALYSIS: section 1 09:07
To be, or not to be
- ANALYSIS: section 2 22:37
To die, to sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream.
- ANALYSIS: section 3 29:25
There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life
- ANALYSIS: section 4 36:53
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all
- Context: Post 42:56
Characters discussed in this video:
- C1 Hamlet
- Harry Potter
- Nietzsche
- David Foster Wallace
- Samuel Beckett
Themes discussed in this video:
- T1 Hero’s Quest / Wasteland
- T5 Thought vs Action
- T6 Existentialism
- T9 Mind-body Duality
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- Antithesis
- Parallelism
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- Irony
- Allusion
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@AbhinavKumarSahai 9 ай бұрын
“And by opposing them end them“ may not mean to die rather a prince can end his outrageous fortune by struggling with them and change his destiny
@5QShakespeare 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the observation, Abhinav. Yes, the lines do have that double meaning. I could have mentioned that. The general thrust of the soliloquy, though, is the suicide question.
@AbhinavKumarSahai 9 ай бұрын
@@5QShakespeare Yes, The Tragedy surrounding the Prince makes us invoke the Negative connotations but I thought being a prince he could have thought of being a fighter as Ophelia later says that he has lost his sanity …
@5QShakespeare 9 ай бұрын
Yeah. That is the central tragedy. He's the wrong man for the job. Which may be a central definition of tragedy generally. I talk about this fact in several videos. Most recently, here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLd2l9phnJqxYZs.htmlsi=Nd2b9hJ1Hi7-SVOf @@AbhinavKumarSahai
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@shaidaallie503 6 ай бұрын
So this story is what we call a tragedy? What would be the opposite?
@5QShakespeare 6 ай бұрын
Comedy. Traditionally, the defining characteristic of a comedy is a marriage ending. After much shenanigans, of course. We classify Shakespeare's works into history plays (he wrote a lot), tragedies, and comedies. We call his last 4 plays Romances - they contain elements of all 3 genres.
@shaidaallie503 6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much May I now ask what is shenanigans
@5QShakespeare 6 ай бұрын
Haha. An Irish term. In English, we use it to mean fooling around, being playfully mischievous, etc.@@shaidaallie503