William Shakespeare is the most famous poet in English literature particularly for the using of the English sonnet who contains three quatrains and a final couplet. He wrote many tragedies like Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet but the most popular play considered as the one of the best plays ever written by Shakespeare is Hamlet and talking about this play, the most important part is in the act three scene one with the name “to be or not to be”.

First of all, “to be or not to be” is not a monologue but it is a soliloquy in which the speaker isn’t surrounded by other characters in the scene but is alone on the stage.

When I once read the title what comes to my mind was the thought of a philosopher named Parmenide and I expected the poem might be about a contrast between to be, that means on one hand living actively but on the other to suffer, to take on life’s pains and to try to pass life’s barriers; and not to be that means dying, stop sufferings and pains having during the life and last but not least it means sleeping where you can have good or bad dreams. So, it is better to live or to die: this is the question.
In addiction, in the title “to be or not to be” Shakespeare uses an infinity mood to create an abstract effect indeed the choice of the infinity mood adds an existential dimension.

Moreover, as it was said, Hamlet is concerned with a doubt: if live is better than death. Talking about this, he’s alone on the stage but he speaks in the fist person plural because he is talking about the biggest of man’s dilemmas.
While in the first lines of the soliloquy he states about the adversity of live “to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”, “to take arms against a sea of troubles”, in lines 5-10 he introduces the opposite of life: death that is the only way to escape from the sufferings and pains of life.
In lines 5-10 and in the following once “to die: to sleep”, “by a sleep to say we end”, “to sleep: perchance to dream” “must give a pause” is underline how Shakespeare views death namely is sleep, indeed he views death as a constant sleep, a never ending sleep in which you can’t wake up, but sleeping implies dreaming and you could have good or bad dreams.
In the following lines, with “what dreams may come”, “must give us a pause”, the aggressive tone of “must” implies that this is an issue for everybody because everybody has something to fear.
After that, Hamlet introduces the concept of committing suicide or the thought of this action and in particular the concept of dreaming when you’re dead, that reclaims the quote of Sylvia Plath “Dying is an art”.                                                                                            So, a person who commits suicide is unable to face problems, to pass life’s pains indeed to Hamlet suicide requires courage, a quality that human being haven’t because it means facing the unknown reality (reality the after-death). Hamlet concludes the soliloquy with a metaphor of death “But that the dread of something after death the undiscover’d country from whose bourn no traveller returns”, indeed nobody returns to life after death, a death that, as Hamlet says “makes us rathe bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of” and he considers humans being as cowards because they haven’t got the courage to die because they don’t know about the reality after-death. The final words of the soliloquy are “with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action” and there, is underline the decline of punctuation which decreases. The use of word “action” highlights an Hamlet’s regret to his father and to himself indeed he concludes the soliloquy with the words “be all my sins remember’d”.

Concluding, in this soliloquy Hamlet states about interesting aspects of life, death and after-death, and he asks to himself if it is better live or die, creating argumentation in favor of living and in favor of dying.