When Hamlet asks, “To be, or not to be,” he is not merely rehearsing a thought about life and death. He is pausing at a far subtler threshold—the point where the weight of being someone begins to feel ...

HERE are the opening lines from Hamlet’s soliloquy (it goes on much longer and is worth reading, and the play is worth watching). “To be, or not to be, that is the question:/Whether ‘tis nobler in the ...