...drowsy, the king in his last days seems to embody the very life his son reproaches himself for leading, "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?" (4.4.33—5). It is also the life-style of his brother; he is the "bloat King"...

...to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more! - Shakespeare, (Hamlet) Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his...

...let him become a fool. ..." On the other hand, in his play Hamlet, Shakespeare makes a salient point: "....What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more, Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before...

...revenge" (34—35). This statement is self-focused, but his next statement is a generalization on man: "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more" (35-37). Later on, he references the army going to fight for the...