Hamlet’s Soliloquy: The Undiscovere'd Country

In the second act of the Soliloquy Trilogy, Hamlet considers the land beyond our land, beyond our lives, beyond our dreams. But the unknown is a discovery that carries immense consequence, the dread of something after death. This piece envisions that dread as an un/holy gatekeeper, a monstrosity waiting at the edge of existence to lay waste to those who would violate the sanctity of the linear process of time. “Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?”