Hamlet

Act 3, Sc. 1, lines 57-89: Paraphrase lines 84-89 and explain how these lines apply to Hamlet's situation in the play.

Hamlet. ...Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And make us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

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Hamlet laments about putting up with all the stress and disillusionment that life brings. It would be easier to just die except that nobody really knows what comes after death. He wonders if the afterlife could be even worse than the present life. This dies into Hamlet's own melancholy and his tiredness of living in a corrupt world.