


(folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. Hamlet is established as (1) suicidally reckless, not valuing his life above a pin, (2) prudish, disliking drunkenness, (3) philosophical, drifting easily into a disquisition on character from the discussion of drinking. To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd.

To die- to sleep- No more and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 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.
