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A 4 page paper which examines the relationship between the themes of dreaming and sleeping in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. No additional sources cited.
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tale of the search for truth and identity and a tale of revenge and honor. There is also a very famous scene which examines the themes of dreaming and sleeping.
In Act II Scene I Hamlet gives us the infamous line "To be or not to be," which sets the stage for a discussion of dreaming and sleeping. The following
paper examines this particular speech and discusses the theme and meaning of dreaming and sleeping. Hamlet: Dreaming and Sleeping The theme of sleeping and dreaming in Hamlet is a
theme that seems primarily focused on sleeping as it relates to the plot. That is to day that much of what we read or hear about sleeping has little to
do with dreaming because the discussion of sleeping more often than not concerns the fact that Hamlets father was apparently sleeping when he was murdered. But, this particular fact is
later used by Hamlet in a symbolic examination of life itself and the desire to live a life that is filled with positive pleasures rather than vengeful realities. In Act
III Scene I Hamlet does not discuss his father, and the fact that he was sleeping when he was killed, but he truly examines what it is to experience the
ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling her to forgive him and forget him for
what will take place. In the beginning of this particular scene Hamlet states, as mentioned, "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" (Shakespeare
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