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SUNGA Philippine Normal University n_sunga@ yahoo.com Day 1PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 2 A good speaking voice should be balanced between extremes of volume, pitch , and rate, while having a pleasing sound quality. VOLUME. This refers to the loudness or softness of sounds. PROJECTION. This refers to the loudness or softness of sounds in reference to a target audience. PITCH. This refers to the highness or lowness of sounds. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 3 PITCH RANGE. This refers to the distance between the highest sound and the lowest sound. Good speakers vary the pitch of their voices to convey emotion and conviction. Too high a pitch should be avoided, because it suggests immaturity and excitability. The best approach is to make conscious effort to be conversational in your speaking. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 4 RATE. The most effective speaking rate falls into the range of 125-160 words a minute. QUALITY. The most important recommendation for voice quality is to relax your throat while you speak. Think in terms of friendliness, confidence, and a desire to communicate. Relax, so you can evict any tension from your voice. A pleasing tonal quality will usually follow. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 5 A Good Speaking Voice n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 6 A Good Speaking Voice A good speaking voice generally has the following characteristics: The tone is pleasant , conveying a sense of friendliness. It is natural , reflecting the true personality and sincerity of the speaker. It has vitality, giving the impression of force and strength, even when it isn’t especially loud. It portrays various shades of meaning , never sounding monotonous and emotionless. It is easily heard , thanks to proper volume and clear articulation. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 7 Try Your Voice “I appreciate the kindness you have shown me, and I hope to return the favor when I can.” ( Simple, honest statement, or sarcasm). 2. “Kindness! Dou you call that kindness! I wouldn’t treat a stray dog the way you’ve treated me!” ( Resentment, anger, unfriendliness) 3. “If we all show a little kindness, a little concern for others’ needs as well as our own, we can help make the world what it should be.” ( Deep feeling of earnestness and conviction). n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 8 The Speaking Process n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 9 THE SPEAKING PROCESS Breathing consists of two phases: i nhalation and exhalation. The principal bodily structures involved in the breathing process are the lungs and the diaphragm. In speech, correct breathing can be attained by following these helpful activities: Inhale deeply and/or more rapidly. Maintain a steady pressure of air as you talk. Maintain an adequate breath reserve. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 10 Exercises in Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercise 1 Directions: Breathe as deeply as possible doing the following: lift the upper chest, push out the ribs, harden the abdomen, and d) pull down the diaphragm, until it draws air into the lungs like a suction pump. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 11 Say the following sentences starting with short pauses and then longer pauses. a. She is here. She is here now. She is here now, and you can go. She is here now, and you can go if you care to. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 12 Say the following sentences starting with short pauses and then longer pauses. b. The cat is friendly. The cat is very friendly. The cat is very friendly and smart. The dog is very friendly and smart, and she knows many tricks. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 13 Say the following sentences starting with short pauses and then longer pauses. c. The man has left. The man is now in the village. The man drove his car to the village. The man drove his car to the village to get some sugar. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 14 Exercise 2 Directions: Inhale as described in Exercise 1 and say the following expressions. Speak with a relaxed and open throat and prolong the stressed tones with maximum vocal energy. Absolutely not! As you were! Look! Don’t! That can’t be true! Hey, you! All aboard! Roll it over! Forward! March! Oh! n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 15 Exercise 3 Directions: Recite the following excerpt with varied vocal force. Keep the throat relaxed and open. Supply power from the abdomen and sustain the stressed sounds. Hear the sledges with the bells--- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!... Hear the mellow wedding bells— Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!... Hear the loud alarum bells--- Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now their turbulency tells!... Hear the tolling of the bells--- Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their melody compels! n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 16 The Phonation Stage n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 17 THE PHONATION STAGE This stage takes place when voice is produced in speaking as the expiratory air stream from the lungs goes up through the trachea or windpipe to the larynx. Exercises Exercise 1. Yawn gently but thoroughly, and note at the finish how the muscles of the jaw and throat feel when relaxed. This is the ideal muscle situation for speaking. Exercise 2 . Open your mouth as if to yawn, leave it wide open, and say “high ho! Next, say the letters of the alphabet. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 18 Exercise 3. Read the following sentences and an excerpt with an open and relaxed throat: Sentences: Good day! How does it go? Wait for us. Have you tried it? Ask and it shall be given n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 19 Excerpt: You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever-- And it well may be for a day and a night, And it well may be forever. -Richard Hovey n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 20 the Resonation Stage n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 21 The Resonation Stage The voice produced in the process of phonation is weak. It becomes strong and rich only when amplified and modified by the human resonators—the upper part of the larynx, the pharynx, the nasal cavity, and the oral cavity. This process of voice amplification and modification is called resonation. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 22 Exercises Exercise 1. For an open and relaxed mouth and pharynx, continue practicing the yawn exercise until you can sense the depressed tongue and raised soft palate. Exercise 2. Say “ah” aloud, sustaining the sound fifteen seconds. Observe the depressed tongue and raised soft palate. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 23 Exercise 3. Use the series of small and big-sized numbers below as guides for varying the intensity of voice. Try to keep the voice at your average pitch as you vary the loudness. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 24 Exercise 4. Do the same procedure as in Exercise 3 but this time use the alphabet from A to H. A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 25 Exercise 5. Read the ff. sentences varying the intensity of the voice appropriately. Stand up, speak up, shut up! I know, I know, I know! John, John, look! Where, where, where can it be? n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 26 How do I love thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs , and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning n_sunga@ yahoo.com 1PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 27 n_sunga@ yahoo.com Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interréd with their bones, So let it be with Caesar…. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it…. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all; all honourable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral…. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man…. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. Friends, Romans, countrymen ... William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2,Mark Antony 2PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 28 He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. n_sunga@ yahoo.com Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. 3PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 29 HAMLET A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare HAMLET: 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 heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come n_sunga@ yahoo.com 4PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 30 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprise of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now, The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 31 You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
VOCAL VARIETY monotreemes Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: Embed: Flash iPad Copy Does not support media & animations WordPress Embed Customize Embed URL: Copy Thumbnail: Copy The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 120 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: April 20, 2012 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... By: monotreemes (10 month(s) ago) add me on fb: Manilyn Destacamento Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Photo Album: Photo Album by Phd. Sunga VOCAL VARIETY: USING YOUR VOICE NILDA R. SUNGA Philippine Normal University n_sunga@ yahoo.com Day 1PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 2 A good speaking voice should be balanced between extremes of volume, pitch , and rate, while having a pleasing sound quality. VOLUME. This refers to the loudness or softness of sounds. PROJECTION. This refers to the loudness or softness of sounds in reference to a target audience. PITCH. This refers to the highness or lowness of sounds. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 3 PITCH RANGE. This refers to the distance between the highest sound and the lowest sound. Good speakers vary the pitch of their voices to convey emotion and conviction. Too high a pitch should be avoided, because it suggests immaturity and excitability. The best approach is to make conscious effort to be conversational in your speaking. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 4 RATE. The most effective speaking rate falls into the range of 125-160 words a minute. QUALITY. The most important recommendation for voice quality is to relax your throat while you speak. Think in terms of friendliness, confidence, and a desire to communicate. Relax, so you can evict any tension from your voice. A pleasing tonal quality will usually follow. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 5 A Good Speaking Voice n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 6 A Good Speaking Voice A good speaking voice generally has the following characteristics: The tone is pleasant , conveying a sense of friendliness. It is natural , reflecting the true personality and sincerity of the speaker. It has vitality, giving the impression of force and strength, even when it isn’t especially loud. It portrays various shades of meaning , never sounding monotonous and emotionless. It is easily heard , thanks to proper volume and clear articulation. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 7 Try Your Voice “I appreciate the kindness you have shown me, and I hope to return the favor when I can.” ( Simple, honest statement, or sarcasm). 2. “Kindness! Dou you call that kindness! I wouldn’t treat a stray dog the way you’ve treated me!” ( Resentment, anger, unfriendliness) 3. “If we all show a little kindness, a little concern for others’ needs as well as our own, we can help make the world what it should be.” ( Deep feeling of earnestness and conviction). n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 8 The Speaking Process n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 9 THE SPEAKING PROCESS Breathing consists of two phases: i nhalation and exhalation. The principal bodily structures involved in the breathing process are the lungs and the diaphragm. In speech, correct breathing can be attained by following these helpful activities: Inhale deeply and/or more rapidly. Maintain a steady pressure of air as you talk. Maintain an adequate breath reserve. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 10 Exercises in Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercise 1 Directions: Breathe as deeply as possible doing the following: lift the upper chest, push out the ribs, harden the abdomen, and d) pull down the diaphragm, until it draws air into the lungs like a suction pump. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 11 Say the following sentences starting with short pauses and then longer pauses. a. She is here. She is here now. She is here now, and you can go. She is here now, and you can go if you care to. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 12 Say the following sentences starting with short pauses and then longer pauses. b. The cat is friendly. The cat is very friendly. The cat is very friendly and smart. The dog is very friendly and smart, and she knows many tricks. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 13 Say the following sentences starting with short pauses and then longer pauses. c. The man has left. The man is now in the village. The man drove his car to the village. The man drove his car to the village to get some sugar. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 14 Exercise 2 Directions: Inhale as described in Exercise 1 and say the following expressions. Speak with a relaxed and open throat and prolong the stressed tones with maximum vocal energy. Absolutely not! As you were! Look! Don’t! That can’t be true! Hey, you! All aboard! Roll it over! Forward! March! Oh! n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 15 Exercise 3 Directions: Recite the following excerpt with varied vocal force. Keep the throat relaxed and open. Supply power from the abdomen and sustain the stressed sounds. Hear the sledges with the bells--- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!... Hear the mellow wedding bells— Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!... Hear the loud alarum bells--- Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now their turbulency tells!... Hear the tolling of the bells--- Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their melody compels! n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 16 The Phonation Stage n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 17 THE PHONATION STAGE This stage takes place when voice is produced in speaking as the expiratory air stream from the lungs goes up through the trachea or windpipe to the larynx. Exercises Exercise 1. Yawn gently but thoroughly, and note at the finish how the muscles of the jaw and throat feel when relaxed. This is the ideal muscle situation for speaking. Exercise 2 . Open your mouth as if to yawn, leave it wide open, and say “high ho! Next, say the letters of the alphabet. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 18 Exercise 3. Read the following sentences and an excerpt with an open and relaxed throat: Sentences: Good day! How does it go? Wait for us. Have you tried it? Ask and it shall be given n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 19 Excerpt: You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever-- And it well may be for a day and a night, And it well may be forever. -Richard Hovey n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 20 the Resonation Stage n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 21 The Resonation Stage The voice produced in the process of phonation is weak. It becomes strong and rich only when amplified and modified by the human resonators—the upper part of the larynx, the pharynx, the nasal cavity, and the oral cavity. This process of voice amplification and modification is called resonation. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 22 Exercises Exercise 1. For an open and relaxed mouth and pharynx, continue practicing the yawn exercise until you can sense the depressed tongue and raised soft palate. Exercise 2. Say “ah” aloud, sustaining the sound fifteen seconds. Observe the depressed tongue and raised soft palate. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 23 Exercise 3. Use the series of small and big-sized numbers below as guides for varying the intensity of voice. Try to keep the voice at your average pitch as you vary the loudness. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 24 Exercise 4. Do the same procedure as in Exercise 3 but this time use the alphabet from A to H. A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H A B C D E F G H n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 25 Exercise 5. Read the ff. sentences varying the intensity of the voice appropriately. Stand up, speak up, shut up! I know, I know, I know! John, John, look! Where, where, where can it be? n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 26 How do I love thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs , and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning n_sunga@ yahoo.com 1PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 27 n_sunga@ yahoo.com Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interréd with their bones, So let it be with Caesar…. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it…. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all; all honourable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral…. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man…. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. Friends, Romans, countrymen ... William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2,Mark Antony 2PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 28 He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. n_sunga@ yahoo.com Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. 3PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 29 HAMLET A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare HAMLET: 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 heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come n_sunga@ yahoo.com 4PowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 30 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprise of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now, The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. n_sunga@ yahoo.comPowerPoint Presentation: n_sunga@yahoo.com 31