In this monologue, Hamlet makes the observation that there are two types of people in this world. There are people who do what they say they are going to do, and others who put off doing the things they say they are going to do: "To be or not to be, that is the question." : is it nobler in the spirit to suffer the slings and arrows of scandalous fortune, or to take up arms against a sea of ​​troubles and, by opposing it, put an end to it", page 144 , lines 63-67. Hamlet is indeed right, there are two types of people who are like that. For example, a high school student wants to ask his boyfriend out. He tells his friends that he will ask her that day. When that day comes, he asks the girl out. This would be an example of a person of action. On the other hand, if the boy said he was going to ask the girl out that day and that day came, he wouldn't ask her and said he would do it another time. Then when that other day came, he doesn't ask her again and says he'll ask her another day, and the process repeats. This would be an example of a passive person. Hamlet throughout the play, up to this point, has been very passive in his actions. Hamlet keeps saying he's going to do this and that, but never does anything. Hamlet, in this soliloquy, questions whether he is essentially man enough to do what must be done. From this point in the story, Hamlet moves from passive thinking to the action he says he is going to do. However, it is worth noting that as soon as Hamlet begins to act, bad things come from his actions. Like ugly confrontations with his mother Gertrude, as well as with his daughter Ophélie. Additionally, Hamlet later kills Polonius accidentally. It is entirely possible that Shakespeare was trying to