Shared Flashcard Set

Details

To Be or not to Be
Hamlet soliloquy: line by line
13
English
11th Grade
02/21/2010
Click here to study/print these flashcards.

Create your own flash cards! Sign up here.

Additional English Flashcards

 

 

Cards

Term
To be, or not to be; that is the question;
 Definition
whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Term
or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
 Definition
And by opposing end them.
Term
To die; to sleep;No more;
 Definition
and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache,
Term
and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,
 Definition
'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
Term
To die, to sleep; To sleep:
 Definition
perchance to a dream:
Term
aye, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
 Definition
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Term
Must give us pause:
 Definition
there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Term
the oppressor's wrong,
 Definition
the proud man's contumely,
Term
the pangs of despised loves, the law's delay,
 Definition
the insolence of office,
Term
and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes,
 Definition
When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Term
who would fardels bears,
 Definition
to grunt and sweat under a weary life,
Term
But that the dread of something after death,
 Definition
the undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns,
Term
puzzles the will,
 Definition
And makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?
Supporting users have an ad free experience!