If "To be or not to be" is the question, then what is the answer?

Answer 1

The answer's QUE SERA SERA.

Answer 2

It depends on who is asking the question and who is answering the question. "To live or to die" is a terrible dilemma. I'm afraid one can only really answer this when that life is over. Rhetorical questions like this one is what keeps the philosophers in business!

Answer 3

There is no answer. This is part of a moral musing by Hamlet where he weighs the pros and cons of committing suicide. In the end, Hamlet decides that people don't kill themselves because, not matter how miserable this life may be, at least it is a known entity. What lies beyond this life is a mystery.

Answer 4

Well, consider the context of the phrase. First off, since Shakespeare was using a very early form of modern english (yes, even middle english sounded different, so he didn't speak middle english), the phrase "To be or not to be" actually means "to live or not to live". In other words "to live or to die". Look at the context, applying the new phrase, to see if it makes sense.

Answer 5

the answer come from ur self u shoud't ask for it

u should decied be or not to be but if i where u i will be cuse human is the best thing in the earth so never kill it

Answer 6

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 makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The 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 the 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 undiscover'd country from whose bourn(e)
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 enterprises 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 remember'd."


some argu ethat this is not about daeth....or suicide, but rather our constraints to move forward in life and accomplish things.

Answer 7

Either to be
or
not to be.
Choose one, then act.
Choose and act.
What good is making a choice if you don't act based on the choice you've made?

Answer 8

u live u dream u breath u hope u admire u forgive u useful u must do to be to be u self as u want

Answer 9

u need to read hamlet or macbeth [watever]. -_- was that a rhetorical question? .. b/c THAT question was rhetorical. AND .. its answered in the plot.. obviously

Answer 10

Either suicide or suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Take your pick.