[Hamlet:] For in that sleep of death what dreams may Based on this section of the soliloquy, which words
best describe Hamlet's attitude toward life?
come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life
-Hamlet,
William Shakespeare
O bored and scornful
O hopeful and curious
O pessimistic and despairing
O relaxed and nostalgic

the third one is pessimistic and despairing, which is the correct answer.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive