To be or not to be is the famous soliloquy from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. What Hamlet was trying say in the soliloquy was whether he should kill him self or not. He was thinking about just sleeping and never waking up, so he can sleep and stop all the heartache and just die in a dream. Hamlet kept saying what was the point of living as he was kind of a failure. ‘To be or not to be’ this translates into ‘To live or not to live’ in this particular soliloquy.