TO ACT OR NOT TOACT

While "Steve Jobs' speech" and "Hamlet's soliloquy" share similar themes, the two pieces are very different in most other respects. Chiefly, their tones are polar opposites. Jobs used a very positive, upbeat tone to convey the theme of his commencement speech. He portrayed life as an exciting pool of possibilities, with death being nothing more than a tool used to reset the cycle and make room for future generations once their predecessors have had their time. Shakespeare, on the other hand, took a very different approach. As he is known for, he used a dismal and melancholy tone in " Hamlet's soliloquy". I am no expert on Shakespearean literature (nor do I want to be), but it certainly doesn't take one to sense the tone/mood of his works.