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What is hamlet debating in his famous to be or not to be soliloquy?

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Whether or not to commit suicide
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Hamlet is debating over the morality of life over death in his famous soliloquy “To be not to be”.

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Shakespeare’s work Hamlet is famous for its soliloquy ‘to be not to be’ where the main protagonist Hamlet is in grief after his father’s demise.

He starts anticipating to take his own life and the Holy Bible considers this as a sin. The soliloquy thus talks about Hamlet’s quandary of choosing between life and death.

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