To be or not to be...that is the question
This age old question is plaguing us for eons; at every juncture that we take a crucial decision, this question comes to haunt us.Shakespeare put it bang on target when he made his character speak about this life changing dilemma in his great tragedy Hamlet.
The poets and writers often can be pretty clairvoyant and look to the human nature and our psyche in ways different to our own thoughts. Take the Sermons on the Mount by Lord Jesus or when Krishna is speaking the Gita on the battlefield of Kurukshetra or the Quran as revealed to Prophet Muhammad. Even if we take Krishna to be a purely mythological character spouting the thoughts of Ved Vyaasa, one can still observe the far reaching glimpses of human life. The most important aspect is that the truths remain true for all ages.
Let us think of the more relatively recent poets, Walt Whitman in his poem "Leaves of Grass" or Shelley in the "Ode to the Grecian Urn" or William Wordsworth in "Solitary Reaper" or Tagore in his offering "Gitanjali" or modern poets of India like Keki Daruwala,Vikram Seth or Kamala Das..................................they all talk of human nature in relation to his psyche,the world,nature at large and showing us glimpses of the future.
When we are taught the classics in school and college, we study them as part of our syllabus, never really going in to the depths, the underlying meaning...it all becomes realistic to us when we experience the real world.
So the question remains........................to be or not to be???????
This age old question is plaguing us for eons; at every juncture that we take a crucial decision, this question comes to haunt us.Shakespeare put it bang on target when he made his character speak about this life changing dilemma in his great tragedy Hamlet.
The poets and writers often can be pretty clairvoyant and look to the human nature and our psyche in ways different to our own thoughts. Take the Sermons on the Mount by Lord Jesus or when Krishna is speaking the Gita on the battlefield of Kurukshetra or the Quran as revealed to Prophet Muhammad. Even if we take Krishna to be a purely mythological character spouting the thoughts of Ved Vyaasa, one can still observe the far reaching glimpses of human life. The most important aspect is that the truths remain true for all ages.
Let us think of the more relatively recent poets, Walt Whitman in his poem "Leaves of Grass" or Shelley in the "Ode to the Grecian Urn" or William Wordsworth in "Solitary Reaper" or Tagore in his offering "Gitanjali" or modern poets of India like Keki Daruwala,Vikram Seth or Kamala Das..................................they all talk of human nature in relation to his psyche,the world,nature at large and showing us glimpses of the future.
When we are taught the classics in school and college, we study them as part of our syllabus, never really going in to the depths, the underlying meaning...it all becomes realistic to us when we experience the real world.
So the question remains........................to be or not to be???????
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