Hamlet “To be or not to be” Soliloquy rewrite

Wrote this for my English class a few months ago...


Should one venture forth-in life or stay frozen in time,
and be washed away by the seas tide? This is the question
all shall seek in a world so blind and filled with the meek.
Why can’t this world be as perfect as it seems?
Why can’t life be an intrepid dream?
Where nothing matters and life is in between reality and fantasy.
Why can’t this world be free of corruption and disloyalty?
Surely there is something more in this sinful world.
Why should one tolerate the evil and darkness of this world?
When all it takes is a bullet and a soul to tear apart the darkness hold.
Why sit around and wait for silence to come when it can all come to an end with just a
bullet and a gun. So the answer all shall seek is one that may seem hard to believe.
What is life?
Is it something that resides in our dreams,
is it something that our minds only perceive?
It seems as if life is just the shadow of a dream,
but that means that life is built of ambition, and what exactly
are we ambitious for, death?
Is it our purpose to live and die such a dreadful life to only
be left with the rising tide washing away our pointless lives?
Why get up and do anything at all?
Why fight for all those who have been wronged?
When everything that we do, and say seems pointless.
How can life be so meaningless?
Are there any of us left who can be a variable in a world full of constants, and show that
life is more than an ambitious journey towards death?
Despite such questions of life we somehow find a reason to carry on.
Could there be an answer beyond our haunted reflection shimmering in the eyes
of a faceless complexion?
Can we open up our locked up eyes and peer beyond darkness disguise,
and realize that life lies in the shadow of a dream, and it is this ambition that drives us
towards a world in between reality and fantasy.
Whether that world lies in our dreams or if it is reality we will still believe
that we can find a world free of holes and abnormality,
and this world will echo in our decaying skulls as our bodies lose their aging molds,
and we will slip away from the hands of time with the hope
that we will collide with a better life.

This is what I call a storm of thoughts, like hammers they hit upon the very existence of things.

And I love it, good rhymes and very inspiring

This part was inspired by a quote rose and Gill made in Hamlet
GUILDENSTERN
Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
This idea resonates through the whole play so I made the soliloquy do the same.

It seems as if life is just the shadow of a dream,
but that means that life is built of ambition, and what exactly
are we ambitious for, death?

Thank you again for these thoughts! You have such an eloquent way in bringing them forward. It will need a lot of silence around me or excellent companionship to think it all over, John!

Originally Posted by Johnb31

What is life?
Is it something that resides in our dreams

It's resurrection after death. The soul separate about the body and go everywhere. we will touch the silence and hope. There will be life....

Nicely said dark1979