To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Mirabella Luu calendar 2020-12-22 02:12

Meaning of To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub

Synonyms:

die

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub literary quote

To die

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Origin of To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub

35: To Sleep Perchance To Dream — suspension-solution

‘To sleep, perchance to dream,’ is one of the many often quoted lines in Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be‘ soliloquy
Source: suspension-solution.com/

‘To sleep, perchance to dream,’ is one of the many often quoted lines in Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be‘ soliloquy in act 3, scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet.

The soliloquy is a logical expression of Hamlet’s thinking on the subject of death. He thinks about all the inconvenient, tedious and unpleasant things about life and fantasises about ending them with a long sharp needle in the heart or brain. (He does not specify which.) It would be so wonderful just to go to sleep  – by which he means to die –  and drift into unconsciousness, as we do when we place our heads on our pillow at the end of a day.

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