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Question 4
Read the "To be or not to be solioquy spoken by Hamlet in act III, scene , of Shakespeare's play. What may have been Shakespeare's purpos
behind this soliloquy?

Answer 1

Shakespeare's purpose behind “To be or not to be soliloquy" is to promote acceptance of life.

Explanation:

• Shakespeare's purpose behind “To be or not to be soliloquy" is to promote acceptance of life's circumstances in whatever it may be.
• In the soliloquy, Hamlet is depressed and devastated due to bad experiences he has faced recently.
• With much contemplation, he realizes that death may end the agony but nobody knows what happened after one dies; it could be things are bad.
• Besides this, he assumes that he doesn't want to be a miserable ghost-like father.
• The soliloquy is also about exploring life to better understand why people don't take bad decisions even when life is giving them a raw deal.

Answer 2

Answer:Shakespeare uses a soliloquy to highlight the internal conflict that faced Hamlet in act III. The speech brought to the fore Hamlet's hesitation in deciding whether to end his life in the hope of attaining eternal rest. The line “No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks” shows that he considers death a possible way out of all his worries.

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