Hamlet

What does Hamlet mean when he says "To be or not to be"?

Act 3, Sc. 1, lines 57-89

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Hamlet is musing about whether to live or die. Hamlet is tired of his life and wonders if it might be better to be dead rather than bare, "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

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