To Be or Not To Be Speech Dramatic Reading
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (General)Transcript
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to be or not to be. That is the question whether it is nobler in the mind, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them, to die, to sleep no more and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the 1000 natural shocks that flesh is heir to. It is a consummation, devoutly to be wished, to die, to sleep, to sleep, a chance to dream. Ay, there's the rub for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal 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 oppressors wrong. The proud man's constantly the pains have just prize now 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 far does bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, thie undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not. Thus conscience does make cowards of us, and thus the native hue of resolution is sick, lied o'er with the pale cast of thought and the enterprises of great pith. And the moment in this regard, the currents turn around and lose the name of action.