Act 3 Scene 1

Hamlet: To be or not to be-- that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more-- and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--
To sleep-- perchance to dream: ay there's the rub,
for in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us a pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
he insolence of office, and the spurns
The patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardles bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have 
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of the great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry 
And lose the name of action -- Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons 
Be all my sins remembered 


Analysis:

This is one of the most famous soliloquie in Hamlet. The famous line “To be or not to be now that is the question” is Hamlet wondering to live or to die. Is it worth to live is what he’s questioning. Sleeping and death are somewhat similar he states because both are an escape from the world. Although death is permanent. The question is if it is worth to go through the pain that life gives like being mistreated by people who think that there better then you, getting your heart broken because someone doesn’t love you back and he makes a list in the scene. He is thinking that why should he go through that or why do people want to go through that when they can just give up and die. Although it might sound good he questions dying because of the fear of it. For instance no one knows what comes after death so that fear makes him question to die. He knows that you can come back from death. He claims that people don’t want to know about what comes after death because it is something that is uncommon to them.The initial problem in this scene is that Hamlet no longer wants to live. Now Hamlet is unsure weather he should just take the bad luck that life has thrown his way or should he fight it by ending everything. The complexity of these thoughts are that he will suffer if he continues on but if he chooses to fight it will be for an unexplained reason to everyone one else and against his own family.This problem occurs in everyday modern life still because there are people who feel the need to stand up to family member's because of their different belief's. People fight for things such as love or betrayal with family or even friends.