To be or not to be

In branaughs Hamlet, Hamlet is saying the to be or not to be speech in a large room and he is talking to himself looking at a mirror. He is cotemplating wether he should kill himself or not. There is not much music, the music that is there is rather quiet. The thing that makes this scene particulary powerful is when Hamlet pulls out the dagger, I felt this added a lot of drama to the scene.

In Almereyda's Hamlet, the speech is given in a modern envirement. The setting is in a video store and the scene is filled with tons of symbolism. First off the setting of the scene is a video store, the symbolism of the setting is that a video store is a place where people make choices, and that is where Hamlet is contemplatng suicide.

In Zeffirelli's Hamlet, the setting is the darkest ot of all the other Hamlet's. It is in a catacomb filled with bodies of the dead . The scene was very bleak and it showed Hamlet in his darkest hour, the strongest version of the to be or not to be speech out of all the Hamlet's iv'e seen.