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प्रश्न
Based on your reading of King Richard’s speech, answer the following questions in about 100 - 150 words each. You may add your own ideas if required to present and justify your point of view.
How are eternal truths and wisdom brought to the reader here?
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उत्तर
Human’s glorious life gets reduced to graves, epitaphs, and worms. Men are left with nothing but their mortal remains to gift to the earth. The earth only serves as a paste and cover to the dead bodies. Great kings too have had inglorious death. Duncan was killed in bed. Hamlet was poisoned to death. Macbeth was slain in the war. Death gives freedom to monarchs from monarchizing the country.
The king realizes with a shudder that Death has occupied a prominent position right inside the crown. He scoffs at the pomp and show of the temporal kings. Even the most powerful monarch who feels as strong as a brass castle is brought down by just a pinprick of death. Death is a great leveler who makes kings believe that they are also ordinary mortals with wants, need for friends, and the need to taste grief.
“Life is a brief intermission between Birth and Death. Enjoy it.”
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