In Hamlet’s “To Be,” speech, he ponders over the issue of whether it is better to live or to die. To live, he has to go through much misery, and suffer “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” (Act 3 scene 1). He has to live with the pain and horror of knowing that Claudius killed his father and married his mother. On the other hand, to die is a way to end all his suffering quickly, but it comes with uncertainty and the question, “for in that sleep of death what dreams may come?” He contemplates the cowardice in ending it all, and the cowardice in fearing death. To not be able to endure the hardships of life is cowardly, but to not get over the worry of life after death is also cowardly. Hamlet chooses to do what he thinks is the more cowardly
