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>MFW I've re-read Shakespeare's 'To be or not to be' monologue from Hamlet and I realised it literally was the story of my life

>> No.3580418
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3580418

It's the story of everyone's life, dingbat. That's why it's such a monumentally significant and renowned soliloquy. It's unnerving to me that you had to read it more than once to grasp that.

>> No.3580420

>>3580418
Shakespeare was a fucking genius, then

>> No.3580422

>>3580418
I didn't read the translation, I read the original.

>> No.3580424

>2013
>not being instead of being

>> No.3580425

>>3580418
English is not my first language and the first time I've read Hamlet was a mandatory reading for one of my teachers at the university (which is not a good way to get you interested in any book)

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>>3580422

What are you talking about? What 'translation'?

>>3580420

>mfw

>> No.3580427

>>3580426
>posts a Harold Bloom picture
>doesn't know what the poster meant with his post

Do you even read?

>> No.3580432

For a different take on the soliloquy, watch the Branaugh film adaptation.

>> No.3580436

>>3580427

Well, 'the translation' is kind of misleading. I thought he might be a native speaker referring to some 'definitive' modernisation of Shakespeare's English.

>> No.3580767

>>3580424
Heidegger?

>> No.3580769

>tfw you empathise totally with Hamlet

I-It's good t-to be in tune with t-the text, right?

>> No.3581539

Ah, yes, Hamlet.
I'm reading it for the first time.
His replies are so pregnant.
I really doubt he really is 10-15 years old.