To be or not to be?

Question

This is the question.

Answer 1

That IS the question!

Do you know what Shakespeare play those lines come from?

Hint: It rhymes with "Omelet".

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Well...that IS the question.

Answer 4

Hamlet answered the question and be-ed taking the known struggles and comings and goings of life over the unknown of death from which there is no return.

Answer 5

Be and its contemporary derivatives (am, was, were, is, are, been, and being) mean to exist.

If to be = exist, then not to be = not to exist. The question thus becomes, to live or to die (suicide).

Hamlet was, in fact, distraught over his father’s murder and his mother’s relationship with his paternal uncle—the new king.

Answer 6

Ive always thought that is the most stupid chiche quote ever excreted from the mouth of a shallow drivel hawker. you either are or you arent. the mere thought of questioning that proves that you are. it also proves that you are a moron for having such a stupid question. if you are, you are. if you are not, you are not. simple stuff.

Answer 7

The phrase "to be, or not to be" comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act III, scene i. In it, Hamlet rather impersonally considers the attractions of death (which he likens to a sleep) over life, whose pain seems unavoidable. The soliloquy in full follows:

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,
Th'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 th'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 undiscovered country from whose bourn
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.

Answer 8

You're quoting Shakespeare which is plagerism. It is far nobler in the hearts of men to come up with their own stuff, so I'd start again!

Answer 9

Definately BE

Answer 10

I always say To Be! Because you can learn a lot of things by being/trying.
To Be rich or not to be? of course to BE!
To be happy or not? To BE!

Get my drift? :)