Hamlet Soliloquy Analysis 4: To be, or not to be (Act 3 Sc 1) 

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- Context: Pre 00:32
- Comprehension Check 01:46
- ANALYSIS: section 1 09:07
To be, or not to be
- ANALYSIS: section 2 22:37
To die, to sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream.
- ANALYSIS: section 3 29:25
There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life
- ANALYSIS: section 4 36:53
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all
- Context: Post 42:56
Characters discussed in this video:
- C1 Hamlet
- Harry Potter
- Nietzsche
- David Foster Wallace
- Samuel Beckett
Themes discussed in this video:
- T1 Hero’s Quest / Wasteland
- T5 Thought vs Action
- T6 Existentialism
- T9 Mind-body Duality
Literary Devices discussed in this video:
- Antithesis
- Parallelism
- Metaphor
- Mixed Metaphor
- Syntax: fragmented speech
- Ellipsis
- Repetition
- Assonance
- Implied Metaphor
- Extended Rhetorical Questioning
- Personification
- Pun
- Imagery
- Doubleness
- Irony
- Allusion
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