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Multiple interpretations held simultaneously by Shakespeare's language.
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Multiple interpretations held simultaneously by Shakespeare's language.
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'To be or not to be' can mean life versus death, killing versus not killing, fate versus defiance, and the point of existence all at once.
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"...to use language as a mechanism to convey different realities, different meanings. Okay? So in Shakespeare, with each of his plays, there are many..."
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"...suffer or should we fight? Okay? So this is the deepest meaning where he's actually asking what is existence? What is the point of..."
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"Let's look at the first possible interpretation of to be or not to be. Okay? You can say it means to die or to..."
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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