Hamlet Discussion Question #9+p 833 #7

9. In Hamlet's famous soliloquy “To be or not to be.” the character at that moment is an important question, literally one of “life and death”, but the general terms in which it is phrased gives it a resonance that reaches out past Hamlet. Hamlet poses the question on the level –  “shall I kill myself?”, or “can I live like this?” but “to be or not to be”. It is existence itself that is up for debate in this speech. The form of words guarantees that Hamlet’s question will be interpreted in a literal sense. the line uses one of the most basic verbs in the language. The verb is then phrased in the infinitive, “to be”, rather than attaching it to any specific noun or pronoun
7. The theme of deception is the most dominant theme in Hamlet because both the antagonist and protagonist use this attribute to manipulate others into believing every statement they say as truth and to have their motives covered from the people surrounding them.