1. Passage #2 This passage is taken from Shakespeares Hamlet. In this play, Claudius murders his brother, the king, and attempts to murder the kings son, Hamlet. The following passage occurs when Hamlet has discovered his uncles treachery and is wondering what to do next. 2. Passage #2 To be, or not to be? That is the question Whether tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep No moreand by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir totis a consummation Devoutly to be wished! Act III Scene I