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Hamlet's Soliloquy To Be Or Not To Be

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The soliloquy “to be or not to be” expresses Hamlet 's contemplation of suicide. He is bemoaning the pain and suffering in life but at the same time acknowledges that the alternative might be even worse, as it is a complete mystery. Although he never once speaks as if he 's talking about himself the audience still gets the feeling that this speech is indeed directed towards himself, as the soliloquy poses a thought that weighs heavily on his mind. In this soliloquy Hamlet is expressing feelings of defeat and hopelessness; a feeling that life is not worth living, “For who would bear the whips and scorns of time” (III,I,71) “When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? (III,I,76-77). He ponders weather suffering in “the slings
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