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Hamlet: Fate - College Essay

Hamlet: Fate

In our world today psychics try to predict what will happen in our
futures. What may happen in the future is controlled by a power far higher
than what can be seen by someone at the other end of a "1-900…" telephone
number. The play Hamlet, by Shakespeare, presents a view of the world in
which man's intellect is powerless to understand and predict the whims of
Fate. Man is governed by an uncaring and perhaps deranged power.
The characters of the play are in no way able to comprehend what
may lie in the future. Hamlet knows that there is something wrong with the
marriage between his mother (the queen) and Claudius (King Hamlet's
brother). The marriage takes place just months after the ...

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to mislead
him in the quest to find his father's killer. Characters of the play become
unsure of their intentions due to the odd twists of fortune that they are
dealt.
Characters in the play that were so sure of their decisions became
uncertain. This uncertainty arises when the plans of characters are somehow
altered. The alterations change the fate of many characters. Polonius was
killed in the wake of Hamlet's plan to find his father's killer. Hamlet had
no intention to kill anyone that did not deserve it. It was by chance that
Polonius was in the chamber of the queen when Hamlet arrived. Polonius hid
behind the curtain and was killed with a thrust of a dagger. "Time is out
of joint." The characters of the play are unable see that their lives are
controlled by the whims of Fate.
The play Hamlet illustrates a world where the people are unable to
comprehend and control the vast powers of Fate that commands their lives.
The concept that man does not control his future ...

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Added: 12/1/2007 05:05:34 AM
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