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(from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet) To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles. And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end. The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks.
- Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely...
- Poems of Anxiety and Uncertainty
In this short Life that only lasts an hour (1292) Emily...
- William Shakespeare
For example, when Hamlet contemplates suicide, he muses, “To...
- Sonnet 18
31 maj 2020 · Claudius begins his soliloquy by describing his ‘offence’ – killing his brother, Old Hamlet – as ‘rank’, i.e. foul-smelling and offensive. His crime is the very first murder in the Bible: Cain’s murder of his brother Abel, from the book of Genesis, and the subsequent curse placed upon mankind.
“To be, or not to be” by William Shakespeare (Bio | Poems) describes how Hamlet is torn between life and death. His mental struggle to end the pangs of his life gets featured in this soliloquy. Hamlet’s soliloquy begins with the memorable line, “To be, or not to be, that is the question.”
In this soliloquy, Hamlet gives a list of all the things that annoy him about life: the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.
Read Shakespeare’s ‘O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven’ soliloquy from Hamlet below with modern English translation and analysis, plus a video performance.
3 lis 2018 · Hamlet’s soliloquy from William Shakespeare’s play is rightly celebrated for being a meditation on the nature of life and death, but some interpretations of the soliloquy serve to reduce the lines to a more simplistic meaning.
Oh, my offence is rank. It smells to Heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse upon ’t, A brother’s murder. (III.iii.) Claudius utters these lines at the beginning of a soliloquy in which he confesses to murdering his brother. At first Claudius does not explicitly state that he killed his brother.
