"To Be, or Not To Be" Read all parts of your assignment carefully and record your responses in the appropriate places. 1.Following are four passages from Acts 2 and 3 ofHamletIdentify the speaker ofeachone and explain the context in which the passage occurs. Then comment on the dramatic purpose, or dramatic significance, of the passage. In other words, explain how each passage may reveal character, advance the plot, or illustrate a theme, motif, or subject of the play. Your response should take the form of a well-developed paragraph for each passage. a."What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties," (Act 2, Scene 2, lines 318 and 319 / 303 and 304).
c."Thus conscience does make cowards of us all," (Act 3, Scene 1, line 90 / 84)
d."My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
