"Which character in a play has a soliloquy that begins ""To be or not to be, that is the question.""?"
To be, or not to be To be, or not to be "To be, or not to be" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet". Act III, Scene I. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of life but acknowledging that the alternative might be worse. This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling and five common emendations introduced from the Second ("Good") Quarto (italicized). To be, or not to be, that is the question:<br> Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to
To be, or not to be Come" also derives its name from a line from this soliloquy. A shorter Hindi version of "To be, or not to be" was recited by Shahid Kapoor in the 2014 Bollywood film "Haider". "Stargate Atlantis", the Season 4 Episode 10 named "This Mortal Coil" (2008) after the soliloquy, as well as Season 4 Episode 11 named "Be All My Sins Remember'd" (2008). These episodes involved learning about and fighting the artificial intelligence species Replicator. There are numerous snowclones based the phrase, such as "To hack or not to hack", etc. The virtuoso soliloquy in Carl Michael Bellman's Fredman's Epistle "Ack