Hamlet's Soliloquy: The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune

The first act of the Soliloquy Trilogy weighs potential versus the challenge of meeting it in the first place. We want the bread, the gold, the alpha, but is it worth the trouble that surely comes with it? And which path is nobler?

“To be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them?”