to be or not to be? is that really the question?

Answer 1

be that as it may...

Answer 2

When Hamlet asks that question, he's on the verge of what we today would probably diagnose as clinical depression, right before we pumped him full of Xanax, leaving poor Ophelia to determine whether or not it was worth the low risk of sexual side-effects.

Think of it: one day you're the crown prince of Denmark with a father you love, and the next day your uncle is sleeping with your mother and your father is sleeping with the fishes. Then the ghost of your father tells you that you must avenge him, because your uncle killed him by pouring poison in his ear.

Then your girlfriend starts acting antsy around you and you're not sure it's because she thinks maybe you AREN'T going to be king after all, which means maybe she was only REALLY interested in being queen. So instead of waiting for her to tell you to screw your courage to the sticking place (which of course is another play entirely), you decide to drive her crazy as a way of seeing if she's really in love with you. And guess what -- you DO drive her crazy and she throws herself in the stream and drowns! But THIS is only after you dither and dilly-dally and can't make up your mind about how to off your uncle, and when your testicles finally descend you grab a dagger and yell "A rat!" and launch yourself at what you THINK is your murdering uncle... only to find out it's your girlfriend's dad, hiding behind a curtain in your mom's bedroom. How freaky is THAT?

Poor Hamlet, sucks to be you. You shoulda taken the bare bodkin back in Act III... but then the play woulda been reeeeeeally short.

Answer 3

Oh yes, Dear, that is always the question, the only question.

If you want to live, wish to carpe the diem, and want to be other than pale and short in the shadows, then Yes, you must be, and ask yourself that question at every turn.

If you can answer it affirmatively often, yours will be a life to be envied and painted on our skies!

Answer 4

It turns out that it actually is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Answer 5

this question haunts every person in his/her life several times.but one finds out the answer gets mental solace.until we find out , we are to strive to get the answer.it is called approach-avoidance conflict.

Answer 6

We are Human "Beings" right?
Not human "Doings"
I think if we are going to get where we want in this life, instead of DOING SOMETHNG FIRST,
WE MUST BE IT FIRST.
BE SUCCESSFUL-ACTIONS OF SUCCESS CAUSING YOU TO DO SUCCESSFUL THINGS, thusly, causing you to manifest SUCCESS in your reality...Shakespear meant, Be it....then Do it....and for certain you shall have it. Be, Do, Have.

Answer 7

since our mere existence answers the question quite boldly, and obviously...

i think we can mature to the question:
"to do, or not to do?"

Answer 8

So Shakespeare tells us.

Answer 9

get psychiatric help like me if u need, otherwise i exist therefore i exist...Hamlet died with Shakes Peare

Answer 10

depends on who and what you are going to be and also under what circumstances.