Act 3 Scene 1
In the most hedonistic of the ways, off course. (Ive been on it, believe me.)
"To be or not to be": word-based analysis is only plausible by grammatical basis, according to Jem Bloomfield; "The form of words guarantees that Hamlet’s question will be interpreted on a general level: the line uses one of the most basic verbs in the language, one without which English itself would surely be impossible to speak. The verb is then phrased in the infinitive, “to be”, rather than attaching it to any specific noun or pronoun (not even Hamlet’s own “I”). Balancing it on the other side of “or” is the simplest possible opposition, the same verb with a one syllable prefix: “not”." Thank you Jem, I suppose it cant be braked down better. Shakespeare reduces English to its simplest form, opening therefore a tremendous, abstract (tedious) gap in any kind of interpretation, oblique in its essence.
Feeding my nonconformity, I would like to respectfully address Shakespeare's soliloquy with a philological counterargument, aided by my good friend Frederich Nietzsche on its text "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense"; "Every word immediately becomes a concept, inasmuch as it is not intended to serve as a reminder of the unique and wholly individualized original experience to which it owes its birth, but must at the same time fit innumerable, more or less similar cases—which means, strictly speaking, never equal—in other words, a lot of unequal cases. Every concept originates through our equating what is unequal." To be as "not to be" are concepts, solemn perceptions subject to ones critique, they end up being just that, a partial truth. Consequently forming a pseudo-oxymoron when placed parallel to each other, producing a "metaphysical" response reaction to a dialectical foundation, a corroborated truth which is a sum of two lies.
In conclusion, the actual question does not provide an objective underlined meaning by itself, meaning its usage relies entirely on context, which is fairly poetic, even more in Hamlet where romanticism is subject to this kind of adornments. Alienation issues and emotional crises of the main character, that is.
Take that "To be or not to be".
High five Nietzsche.
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