Everything's happening in the mind
"Whether to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"- taking the suffering or standing up and fighting against it. Is it nobler to deal with it, or take arms against the troubles
"To die, to sleep, no more"- to be in denial and not deal with his problems
Talks about dreaming to escape reality and how killing his father makes him stop and think regardless of how satisfying it would be. Not sure if hamlet can deal with the feeling after he has killed Claudius.
"Whips and scorns"- physical and mental abuse
"Oprossers wrong"- somebody above us working unjustly
"Contumely"- a proud person being rude to people lower than them
Big dose of "this isn't fair" but it's human and what makes you yourself.
"The insolence of office"- the rude upper man (govt)
"Spurns"- insults
"Bodkin"- dagger. Actually kill himself or just not deal with it
"Fardels bear"- gets frustrated and riled up
As bad as this situation is, at least it's familiar "the devil you know, is better as the devil you don't know"
The big "what if" puzzles hamlet and literally confuses him.
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all"- killing Claudius is morally wrong but justifiable
He thinks about the action so long that he's close to talking himself out of it.
At the end Ophelia's presence is used to bring him back to reality and being observed by somebody else changes his way of thinking
"Orisons"- prayers
Both acknowledge the right and wrong and now this is no right and wrong morality.
Nymph- a young spiritual women
"Be all my sins remembered"- he isn't swayed from his task. He still plans to avenge his fathers death and follow through with killing Claudius.
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