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SRegolin - Summary of "To be or not to be"
by - (2009-02-03)
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"To be or not to be" is a soliloquy taken from "Hamlet", a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
Hamlet's soliloquy is a meditation on life and death. He shares is doubts with the audience opening his reflection with the words "to be or not to be" that have become very famous. He continues the balancing of one alternative against another throughout the soliloquy using a series of infinite forms.
Hamlet closes his argument saying that maybe the kind of thought which prevents men from committing suicide is a moral conscience.