What is to be or not to be about in Hamlet?

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anonymous · Answer

By "to be or not to be" Hamlet is actually considering suicide - to be (live) or not to be (die).  Ultimately, he decides against suicide due to the fear of retribution in afterlife.

matthewrlee · Answer

That is the question, isn't it.

anonymous · Answer

Trolling is a art

llort · Answer

Hamlet is contemplating suicide, he is asking whether to exist or not.

anonymous · Answer

Hamlet is also questionin human existence much as some of us do today. The Early modern period is characterised by this line of questioning, man's place in the uniiverse was being challenged by science, God came under fire, Descartes started this, William Shakespeare picked up a popular theme and hey presto :)

anonymous · Answer

To BE or not to BE, famous Hamlet Soliquoy. Will he 'be' and keep things as they are or not to be fight against what he knows to be wrong. Go figure.