To Be or not to Be is a question that has been asked many times
before. We were curious what happens if we visualize this
passage of Shakespeare’s classics as a text network (using the
polysingularity method) and then read the text through the
network. What are the other possibilities contained within the
passage? Here is the text network visualization (click to
enlarge): Shakespeare's Hamlet text network visualization Here’s
the original text: To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of
troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more;
and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand
natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to
dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what
dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must
give us pause: there’s the respect That m