At act three, scene 1, Hamlet made the famous "To be or not to be" speech. ... In this quote parallelism is the major figurative language being used, Hamlet was talking about all the negative of life, he thinks there are just too many of these negative things in one's life, why would anyone choose this suffering. This is a serious question being shown from this quote, Hamlet is deeply depressed about all those negative things happened in his life, he may consider to commit suicide. ... This quote in the conjunction with other two previous quotes shows the conflicted but contemp...

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Throughout the sixteenth century, many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, were tragedies that readers could feel strong emotional connections with. ... In the to be or not to be soliloquy during the first scene of Act III, Hamlet quotes, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all/ And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought" While being exiled to England, hamlet thinks his procrastination is a result of "some craven scruple/ Of thinking too precisely on the event". ... This quote directly states that though Hamlet has a prime ...

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