'To Be, Or not to Be? That is the question.' This is a well known phrase, from the well known play by William Shakespeare: 'Hamlet'. The play surrounds Hamlet, a prince who is avenging his father's death. What does this even mean? What correlation does it have with us?
The question comes from Hamlet's monologue in Act 3 scene 1. In the depths and layers of human emotion, remorse, grief, hurt, agony, anguish, a question struck Hamlet, that usually is something most ponder upon: Is it better to exist, or cease to exist? To be, Or not to be?
But it goes much deeper than that, it talks of the very complexities that the human mind ponders about, if not always, then just once: The Universal Themes of Life and Death. In the end, we all must accept that life has its importance, that is, to create fulfilling memories, before we end up where we eventually will, with the grass, the trees, the skies, the wind, the buildings, landscapes, rivers, oceans, lakes, water bodies in general and the earth. In the end, death is transient, and that is what Hamlet claims, and that is what it is.
It also talks about the overarching themes that correlate to this: Existential Questions, Balance and Harmony, The fear of the Unknown, The helplessness one feels as they think about what life brings and how they cannot avoid death. The helplessness one feels to be able to do nothing, for Death is inevitable and transient and we all die.
To die means to fall into eternal slumber, knowing you shall never wake again, but do you know if you'll ever wake again? More importantly, when you die, will you ever be able to dream again? Or are dreams too, mortal? But to die means that you shall never have to suffer again, and that is what they all desire.
To live means to suffer. He asks, 'Is it truly noble, to endure all this suffering?' Should we tolerate all the hardships life puts us through? Or do we run away from the fight?
Our hesitation stops us from dying, and our hesitation stops us from living and taking action.
So where are we? We are in between.
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