How did the government attempt to shape public opinion during the cold war? .

It was mostly done through fear tactics during the McCarthy age and through advertising of a positive lifestyle later during Reagan years. At first everyone had to be afraid that the Communists were near and could strike at any day which increased the support for the Capitalistic government, while later when it was figured out that it wasn't as bad, then things such as Coke were used to show how America is a rich nation that is a center of popular culture and that nothing can beat its modernity.

Hamlet's fourth soliloquy is probably his most famous one - "to be or not to be."it is rather different from his previous soliloquies because now he is contemplating something that didn't come up before - suicide. he is thinking whether it is worth it to fight to find his father's murderer when in the end all of them are going to die, so why not die sooner than later. he is contemplating if he should go on fighting or just kill himself and end it all, which is why this soliloquy in particular is rather depressing, hesitant, and gives a deeper insight into hamlet's madness.