Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 14 AIL 1305 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"To Be, or Not to Be"
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The idea
Hamlet asks whether it is 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. The question is put as a choice between two courses, and the speech is an argument about it.
In practice
Two courses, weighed.
Where people slip
Read it as an argument, not a mood.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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