As one of Shakespeare's unequaled acclaimed quotes, Hamlet's words have stood the trial of time and are regularly cited even today in both scholarly community and popular culture. In the start of his fourth, and best known, soliloquy Hamlet muses about the problem of suicide. He thinks about whether one course is "nobler" than the following. Now in the play, Hamlet has been not able follow up on his sworn vengeance, and this disappoints him. The question that forces this man to consider dying: "Which is better, enduring as he has been or finishing it all?" The tone of Hamlet's soliloquy is more reflective than irate, yet he does genuinely consider suicide. He relates his own battle to the battles that all of humankind shares. Given that you
