paraphrase - act 4, scene 4

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Paraphrase - Act 4, Scene 4, Hamlet's Soliloquy

Hamlet: How all things seem to condemn me and stir up meaningless need for revenge inside of me. What would a man be if all he does is sleep and eat? A beast. God who created us with the power to think back and think ahead did not give us the capability to reason just for it to rust away. Whether it was based on mindlessness like that of a beast or some cowardly hesitation of thinking deeply of the occasion (thinking that consists of 1/4th wisdom and 3/4th cowardliness), I do not know why I still say that this is the right thing to do. Yet, I have the purpose, the will, the strength, and the capability to do it. Examples as evident as the earth itself urge me to: witness this unstoppable army led by a young prince whose spirit with godly ambition holds in contempt at the unseen occasion that reveals what is mortal and uncertain to all fortune, death, and danger. To be truly great is not to engage in great conflicts but to partake in small ones when one's honor is at stake. How I can I still stand, knowing that my father was killed and my mother was sinned, knowing that I am still bloodthirsty? Let it all abate as I eventually see 20,000 men being sacrificed all for the senseless fantasy and the illusion of honor to obtain a mere piece of land whose value does not compare to the number of lives lost, whose area is not large enough for one to bury all the bodies left after the battle. From now on, all of my thoughts will be nothing but bloody and murderous.