What does this phrase mean???

Question

"To be, or not to be?"

Answer 1

It's from a Shakespeare soliloquy. It's essentially a contemplation on whether it's better to live on and suffer, or die and have rest.

"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."

In the words of Schopenhauer, "The essential purport of the world-famous monologue in Hamlet is, in condensed form, that our state is so wretched that complete non-existence would be decidedly preferable to it. Now if suicide actually offered us this, so that the alternative "to be or not to be" lay before us in the full sense of the words, it could be chosen unconditionally as a highly desirable termination ("a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" [Act III, Sc. I.]). There is something in us, however, which tells us that this is not so, that this is not the end of things, that death is not an absolute annihilation."

Answer 2

That phrase is from the skakespearian play "Hamlet". Hamlet says that when he is contemplating whether or not to commit suicide. It's the same thing as saying "To live, or not to live".

Answer 3

grew to become away - a horse has been broken in and then grew to become out to enhance up for a season, bodily. Tying up -or tied up, - while a horse has a style of spasm usually interior the back legs, referred to as lymphangitis, a swelling and paralysis through quickly excersise after a era of relax at the same time as nonetheless on no longer uncomplicated feed. it truly is severe and the only prevention is to alter to bulk feed basically on the night till now a ruin day, possible prove into paddock and then tender excersise for the 1st a million/2 hour or so the subsequent time she or he's ridden. in the event that they do tie up then compelled excersise is unadvisable. container abode and save heat till vet arrives. solid to do - uncomplicated to maintain the two in feed (retains weight on actual) and additionally uncomplicated to deal with (groom, container, shoe, clip and so on) looking on context. solid doer is a horse who seems to thrive on no longer uncomplicated artwork and not alot of no longer uncomplicated meals and supplementations. Founder is yet another be conscious for laminitis an inflamation of the blood vessels interior the feet with problems. many times because of the fact the horse is basically too fat and is on lush grass. grew to become into as quickly as constrained to ponies yet now horses look getting it extra too. could additionally come on later in existence through Cushings affliction - yet another symptom may well be thick curly coat in summer.

Answer 4

It's from the Shakespearean play 'Hamlet' I believe. Its meaning is lost in the constant quotation of it as an iconic line defining the playwright's masterful genius.

Answer 5

Hamlet considers wether to commit suicide or not and makes up his mind in front of us. You get to see the inner most thoughts of the man as it is happening.

Answer 6

First, imagine in your wildest fantasy what you want to become, say an Austronaut.

What you do now and the day after and so on will determine whether you are ought to be, or not to become an austronaut.

Answer 7

It's from Hamlet, a play by Shakespeare.

To be or not to be = to exist or not to exist/to make this choice or not to

Answer 8

In this case, it means "to live or not to live" and it's from Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Answer 9

Is it or isn't it? Why didn't you stay awake during English class when you were studying Shakespeare?

Answer 10

To exist or not to exist.