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the tragedy of hamlet, prince of denmark
act iii. scene i.
a room in the castle.
enter claudius, gertrude, polonius, ophelia, rosencrantz,
and guildenstern.
claudius: and can you, by no drift of circumstance,
get from him why he puts on this confusion,
grating so harshly all his days of quiet (5)
with turbulant and dangerous lunacy?
rosencrantz: he does confess he feels himself distracted;
but from what cause he will by no means speak.
guildenstern: nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
but, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof, (10)
when we would bring him on to some confession
of his true state.
gertrude: did he receive you well?
rosencrantz: most like a gentleman.
guildenstern: but with much forting of his disposition. (15)
rosencrantz: niggard of question, but of our demands
to grunt and sweat under a weary life,
but that the dread of something after death,
the undiscoverd country from whose bourn
no traveller returns, puzzles the will,
and makes us rather bear those ills we have
than fly to others that we know not of?
which words does hamlet use to describe the afterlife?
a weary life
undiscoverd country
puzzles the will
those ills we have
To solve this, we analyze the lines related to the afterlife. The relevant line is "The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns...". So we check the options: "a weary life" describes current life, "puzzles the will" is about the effect of the afterlife's dread, "those ills we have" are current troubles. Only "undiscover'd country" is the description of the afterlife.
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