Hamlet+Voice+Activity

media type="custom" key="21578254"media type="custom" key="24391886"media type="custom" key="24391918" Hamlet Act III Scene I 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 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 heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance 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 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 weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscover'd 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 of?

Thus conscience 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 pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action.


 * __ Assignment: __**** Rewrite this passage in the voice and style of another person. It does not have to be a contemporary figure, but it must be recognizable. You will first need to “translate the passage to English.” Consult a dictionary for unfamiliar words. **


 * Consider the original context of the situation: With what issue was Hamlet concerned? How did he consider solving his problems? Then consider what situation your figure would be dealing with and how he or she would think about solving it. **


 * Examples that have been used in the past are //Redneck Hamlet, Gangsta Hamlet, Green Eggs and Hamlet, George W. Hamlet, Napoleon Dynamite Hamlet,// and //Yoda Hamlet.// **