Hamlet

[blu_jeans82]

What's the full quote from Hamlet "To be or not to be, that is the question"?

[Horse]

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms a gainst a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this motral coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a wear life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus consciennce does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and movement With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. (You STILL awake!)

[incitatus]

Which is possibly the most mixed metaphor in the english vernacular. "Take arms against a sea of troubles.." . How can you take arms against a sea? OK Caligula did it to the english channel, but he was a drooling looper.

[artisan]

Horse is incorrect, the full quote would be the whole play, he's just given us the full speech.

[Horse]

Come on dude!

[artisan]

Or you could say "To be or not to be, that is the question?" is the full quote. It is after all what people remember.

[Jazzybooks]

For basic information and I don't know if you'll find it there, but I'd look @ sparknotes it's sort of the online Cliffs Notes... Don't know for sure. But also, you can download the entire play online SOMEWHERE in classics+download (search in Google) and somebody will let you download it and check for yourself..I guess I just do it the hard way. Joni-a newbie