Original Text: 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 …showed first 75 words of 733 total…

…showed last 75 words of 733 total…look closely at our plans and find reasons not to follow through with them. But soliloquy leads to nothing. It has nothing to do with his immediate plans and what Hamlet is supposed to be doing. Hamlet is not talking about himself; he is talking about humanity in general and how precise all our lives are. The speech is only related to Hamlet's own wish to be dead and to his failure to kill Claudius.