Hamlet: To Be or Not to Be

To be or not to be, is that the question?
To be or not to be, is that the question? Or would it be better expressed, to live or not to live? Death and vengeance is a major theme in Hamlet, a theme that is worthy to be explored.
First, the idée fix with suicide or self murder; and then with murder, whether justified or not, of others.
Hamlet was the first to contemplate suicide. In one of his first soliloquies, Act I, scene ii, lines 129-158, Hamlet speaks these lines after an encounter with Claudius and Gertrude who wish for him to lay aside his mourning and also, not to return to Wittenburg:
“O, that this too too sullied flesh to melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Imagine the sorrow Hamlet was feeling. Even though Hamlet was a man, he was never in the position that he had to take on the role of a man. For t...