The subject
of 's "to be or not to be"is suicide, or more broadly, why do humans choose life, with
all its suffering, rather than death, with its escape from earthly miseries?
The opening line "to be or not be," (which means to live or not to live) sets
the tone and explains the internal struggleis undergoing. Badly shaken by 's claim that his
uncle murdered his father, Hamlet wonders if he should simply kill himself. His world has been
turned upside down. He believes he is surrounded by evil and can rely on nobody. After all, if
your uncle would cold-bloodedly kill your father, who can you trust?
In the
soliloquy, the depressed Hamlet wonders why anyone wouldn't leave this "mortal coil"
(the living human body) for the more peaceful land of death. If he were dead he says, he
wouldn't have to be surrounded by all the miseries of being alive, such as bad luck, injustice,
and rejection in...
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