to be or not to be...

my professor told me that Shakespeare never published his plays. the actors who were in the plays decided to bring in their scripts to the printing press, and that it how we have Shakespeare today. i don't know if my professor is right, but if he is then thank goodness those actors did what they did.

reading Shakespeare for my English class is pretty fun... that darn Shakespeare was such a genius. although it takes forever for him to get to his point, there's always lots of meaning in the lines he wrote. like Hamlet's "to be or not to be" speech... his line

"but that the dread of something after death,
the undiscovered country from whose borders
no traveller returns, puzzles the will,
and makes us rather bear those ills we have
than fly to others that we know not of"

speaks about human nature and our tendency to live our lives based on the fear of what is after death. heck yeah i'm scared about what happens after we die, but i feel like if we live our lives right, then we have nothing to worry about. and who says what is right and wrong? i think with every decision we make, we must feel at peace with it, and that's how we know when we're doing the right thing.