"There's A Divinity That Shapes Our Ends"

It's really difficult to state weather or not Hanlets fate was shaped by divinity or not but there are different things that happen in the play that could lead you to believe that it was. Hamlets father coming back as a ghost to tell him about how he was killed could be seen as divinity because Hamlet had no control over that event happenning at the time and it led him to seek revenge for his fathers death. On the other hand he did have control over how he went about dealing with it. Also Hamlet was supposed to be killed when he went to England with Rosencrantz and Guildestern but he came back to Denmark alive. That can be shown as divinity playing a role in what takes place in Hamlets life and the outcome of things. I think that divinity has a major affect on everything that happens to Hamlet throughout the play. Even though Hamlet's plan for the whole play was to kill Claudius and he did, it wasn't in his plans to also die in the process to, so i think that also can be shown as plain fate.


Personally i think that there is a higher force that controls what we become and how we beccome that. As human beings we can always plan things and plan how we want our life to turn out but in the end...that's not how it works. Your outcome in life is a result of your experiences and how you deal and learn from those things. You can't plan the whats gonna happen to you next...it's not realistic. Plenty of people have planned outcomes for themselves or said that their gonna be this or that but it's turned out differently.