TO BE OR NOT TO BE

 This is the third Act of Hamlet. This sliloquy is very important because is a transitional phase for Hamlet. He's thinking about life and death, because he doesn't know if is better live or kill himself.

If he lives he have to suffer the arrows of autrageous fortune but if he sleeps he can stop every single pain.

His indecision and his delaying  make us understand that he wants to kill himself because he doesn't want to suffer for injustices. He thinks he's alone after his father's death and after have discovered the truth about his father's death he doesn't want to stay with his mother that married the man that had killed her husband and also the man that had stolen his trone.
Hamlet doesn't know what to do because he's very scared about the afterlife because he doesn't know what's going to happend.
He wantsto kill him self but he knows that in this way he will go to purgatory. But it's not just about killing himself but also about the mission: to avenge his father's death by killing his father's murdrer. But also if he kills someone he will go to the hell. At the end he thinks what to do and even if in the soliloquy we have a list of all the things that annoy him, there's a fear of the unknow that change everything.

HAMLET

The plot is set in Denmark.  Hamlet discovered is father's dead and also  that his mother has married Old Hamlet's brother, Claudius, and that Claudius is now king.One night, the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him, accusing Claudius of his murder and urging Hamlet to revenge.Hamlet fakes madness in an attempt to provide himself with proof that the ghost is telling the truth.

he persuades a travelling band of actors to re-enact the story of his father's murder in front of Claudius and Gertrude, hoping that Claudius will be so stirred by remorse that he will confess his crime. During an intense meeting with his mother, Hamlet hears a noise and realises that they are being spied upon. In rage, he stabs the hidden eavesdropper, believing it to be Claudius. Instead his discovers it is the King's adviser, Polonius, father to both Ophelia and her brother, Laertes. Polonius dies.

Ophelia, having been violently rejected by Hamlet, hears that her father has been murdered. She loses her mind and eventually drowns herself. Her brother, Laertes, returns to court at the head of an angry mob, determined to find out the truth. Claudius convinces him that Hamlet is the only guilty party and agrees to help Laertes gain revenge. Claudius convinces Laertes to challenge Hamlet to a fencing match and advises Laertes on how to kill Hamlet during the duel without arousing suspicion. As a back-up plan, Claudius also poisons a glass of wine which he intends to offer to Hamlet. Gertrude, however, drinks from the glass first and dies.During the duel, Hamlet is slightly wounded by Laertes, who has tipped his sword with a deadly poison. In the ensuing tussle, the swords get switched and Hamlet wounds Laertes with the poisoned one. Realising that he is about to die, and that Claudius has manipulated the situation, Laertes confesses everything, forgives Hamlet and dies.

As the poison takes hold and he realises that he too is about to die, Hamlet finally carries through his dead father's wish for revenge. He forces Claudius to drink the remaining poisoned wine, which quickly takes effect.

                      THE MIDDLE AGE

750 BC: The Celts  















Stonehenge









476AD: The fall of roman empire

450AD: The anglo-saxons arrived in Great Britain.





 675-1000 AD: Beowulf, an anglo-saxon epic poem

500 AD: the beginning of islam with islamic expansion










INVENTIONS: greek fire








673AD: viking invasions

800AD: Charlemagne bring education for all the people and also for a little part of the women.

1066: the norman conquest 
William the Conqueror arrived in Great Britain









1096: the christians are attacking. The crusades 

1154: Henri II began to rule.












1164: the Constitutions of Clarendon. 

Thomas Becket refused it and he was murdered in Canterbury cathedral.







1215: Magna carta to limit royal power













1216: In Europe we have the birth of universities.

• Bologna 
• Parigi
• Oxford

New inventions like compass and spinning wheel.

1337-1453: the Hundred years war.

1350: the Black Death

1343: Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales.

1436: the invention of printing press.

1455: the War of the roses 









1492: Colombus discovers 
America










..The beginning of a new era: the Renaissance

Successor to the throne

1.  William the Conqueror: he won the battle of Hastings and took over the kingdom of England. He died in 1087. 
2. Henry I: he became king of England in 1100 and his reign was peaceful, but his heir died in a shipwreck. So he wanted that his daughter Matilda succeed him but his nephew Stephen claimed the throne.
3. Stephen: he crowned himself, but Matilda fought against him and this period of civil war is called Anarchy.When he died, Matilda's son became the king.
4. Henry II: he was the first Plantagenet King. He reinforced his power at the expense of the church and he established a regular sistem of finances. He was a warrior king and a chavalric hero and he replaced the feudal duty of military service with a tax known as "scutage". He died in 1189.
5. Richard I: he was known as Lionheart. He was more preoccupied with the state of his french terriories and the crusades. He died in 1199 and he was succeeded by king John.