This quote is said by hamlet to the reader. He says this in his soliloquy in which he contemplates and reflects on weather the better is to live or to die. Readers know that Hamlet has not been in the right mind set, despite his mother’s remarriage and father’s murder. He pretends to be insane as part of his plan for revenge. This quote is significant because it shows Hamlet’s elusive character through his view that death provides a possible escape for him, for his life drama. By using battle imagery to describe both enduring life problems and opposing them through death, Hamlet presents death as an equally courageous and honourable course of action compared to living life. This quote demonstrates how Hamlet negotiates between the desire of