ANALISI TESTI DI INGLESE:

“To be or not to be”

Hamlet discusses how painful and miserable human life is, and how death
(specifically suicide) would be preferable, would it not be for the fearful uncertainty of
what comes after death.
Prince Hamlet thinks about life, death, and suicide. Specifically, he think if might
be preferable to commit suicide to end one's suffering and to leave behind the
pain and agony associated with living. In his soliloquy Hamlet is concerned with a
doubt : whether life is better than death. He is alone but he speaks in the first person
plural because he is giving voice to the biggest of man’s dilemmas. In fact verb
“suffer” indicate a passive attitude (to continue to live in his adversity of existence)
while “take arms” is an active attitude (to meet death and abandon himself to
nothingness)

The first line and the most famous of the soliloquy raises the overarching question of
the speech: "To be, or not to be," that is, "To live, or to die." We can find it in “to
die, to sleep”

In lines 5-10 he introduces an alternative: death. Death as the only way to escape
the sorrow and pain of the injustices

Hamlet initially argues that death would indeed be preferable: he compares the act of
dying to a peaceful sleep: "And by a sleep to say we end / The heart-ache and the
thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to."

However, he quickly changes his tune when he considers that nobody knows for
sure what happens after death , namely whether there is an afterlife and whether this
afterlife might be even worse than life. In fact lines from 10 to 13 points out that man
fears what may happen after death.

Then, in lines 10-13 Hamlet points out that man fears what may happen after death
and in line 28 he says “ conscience” makes us cowards since it is linked to
consciousness which produces cowardice preventing us from committing suicide. In
fact, Death would be preferable to Life’s suffering if man was not scared by the
thought of what there may be beyond it. It is this that makes cowards of men

Another metaphor that comes later on in the soliloquy is this one: "The undiscover'd country
from whose bourn / No traveller returns."Here, Hamlet is comparing the afterlife, or what
happens after death, to an "undiscovered country" from which nobody comes back (meaning
you can't be resurrected once you've died.)

I AM A JEW
This text is divided in 3 parts: in the first part Solanio and Salerio discuss what's happening
on the Rialto (Antonio lost his second ship). In the second part the two with Shylock talk
about the escape of Shylock’s daughter. Solanio is comparing Jessica to a bird that is ready
to leave its mother and fly. Jessica is at the age where she can make her own decisions and
she made the decision to run away from her father, Shylock, and elope with Lorenzo.
Jessica has positive connotations while Shylock negatives ones. In conclusion in the third
part, the most important, is a monologue where Shylock says that Venetians hate him
because is a Jew.

With this monologue Shylock wants to highlight the fact that the Venetians, and in particular
Antonio, hate him because he is a Jew. For this reason Shylock says that the hatred that
Antonio feels towards him is only because he is a Jew, unlike his who hates Antonio for
having laughed behind his back and mocked
Shylock highlights the fact that Jews are like Christians. They have organs, feelings and
passions. If you hurt them, they bleed and if you kill them, they die. If someone wrongs a
Jew, he takes revenge and the same thing would a Christian following their own example.
Shylock responds to these prejudices by saying that there is no difference between
Christians and Jews except for religion.

THE BALCONY SCENE

In Romeo and Juliet, the balcony scene solidifies the bond of love for both characters. The
balcony scene is critically important to the development of the plot of the play because it is
during this scene that the lovers' secret marriage is decided. Juliet will not give up her honor.
She insists on marriage, or no relationship at all.

She is lamenting the effect of the terrible feud that is keeping her and the boy she’s fallen in
love with apart, a feud in which there should be no contact between two people bearing the
names of the feuding families.

Juliet's soliloquy examines another of the play's themes — the importance of words and
names. Juliet compares Romeo to a rose and reasons that if a rose were given another
name, it would still be a rose in its essence. If Romeo abandoned his family name, he would
still be Romeo. Juliet calls into the night for Romeo to "refuse thy name" and in return, she
will "no longer be a Capulet." Therein lies one of the great conflicts of the play — the
protagonists' family names operate against their love. While their love blossoms in oblivion
to any barriers, the people who affect their lives use their familial battles to impose
separation upon the two young lovers.

TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT

The candle and the shadow are something ephemeral, not lasting, fleating and weak, just
like life, another comparison is the poor player, that is to say a mediocre actor who plays
upon the stage but when the play is finished, no one remembers him. The message
conveyed is that life is meaningless and useless, we are just puppets and then we are
forgotten, there is no divine, no further dimension. Moreover the last image, the one of the
tale told by an idiot, clinches the fact that life is meaningless, indeed if the tale teller is an
idiot, the tale will also be.