Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Fate Of A Victim

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The Fate of a Victim
William Shakespeare once said “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” Is this always the case though? Is it possible that one’s destiny is in the hands of another person? Their fate decided by another person? Shakespeare contradicted his quote with his play, Hamlet. In this play, Shakespeare put a young Danish prince’s fate into the hands of the prince’s uncle. Hamlet became a victim of the uncontrollable greed his uncle possessed. His entire life turned upside down and it affected everyone he loved. The selfishness of Hamlet’s uncle caused Hamlet to go into a domino effect of undeserved pain. Hamlet tried used procrastination and sarcasm as a way to escape his trials but his indecisiveness helped
What does this word represent? Does it express held up emotions, aim to hurt one’s feelings, or is it simply a way to poke fun of friends and then laugh along together? In Hamlet, the young Denmark prince uses sarcasm as a way to express his feelings about the death of his father in both bitter and humorous manners. When Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle, asked him, “How is it that the clouds still hang on you?” (I.ii.66), Hamlet bitterly replied, “Not so my lord. I am too much i’ the sun” (I.ii.67). This quote shows sarcasm in two different occasions, the first being anger. The Prince was astonished with his uncle’s indifference towards the death of the Prince’s father. Hamlet’s quote also stands as a pun that spins off of the marriage between his uncle and mother. The use of sun also stands for son in Hamlet’s pun. It explains that Hamlet feels betrayed and disgusted with the fact that he has ‘two’ dads now. Though Hamlet was in a bitter mood, he found a way to use humor as an expression of his
Could his odd behavior be medically diagnosed through the analysis of an illness’s symptoms? When Hamlet first encountered the ghost of his father, Horatio and the castle guards were able to see the mystical being, yet in Hamlet’s second encounter with the ghost, his mother’s eyes were unable to comprehend the ghost’s image. After Gertrude asked Hamlet who he was talking to, Hamlet incredulously replied, “Do you see thing there?.../ Nor did you nothing here” (III.iv.134-36)? Though Hamlet’s mind may have been mentally intact during the first act, his mother’s inability to see the ghost shows that Hamlet is hallucinating. Multiple occurrences within the third act of the play proves that Hamlet is suffering from

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