Everyone has the ability to control the trust that they place in others, and the exact amount of trust should fluctuate depending on the person. It takes a lot of reasoning to distinguish who is reliable and those who is not. Hamlet treats all of the people in his life equally with unwavering doubt, and this lack of moderation is too intense for him. Extreme doubt causes fanaticism which can lead to a lot of issues and depression. The opposite attitude, an ideology of fully trusting others, would most likely have caused him to have been taken advantage of and left ultimately hurt, similar to Ophelia. A world of absolute doubt and/or absolute certainty appears to be a place of pain and sorrow. It is also quite interesting to observe the order of deaths that occur throughout the play. Looking at the characters mentioned above, the order of death starts with Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Gertrude, and lastly, Claudius. A possible explanation could be that …show more content…
Hamlet perishes at the hands of his own extreme doubt. The play may have ended quite differently if Hamlet was able to find at least one source to rely on or confide in. In a very troubling time of coping with his father’s death, social support from one of the many individuals who reached out to Hamlet may have been incredibly beneficial. The world does not have to be a cruel place. Hamlet may have even found some peace in all of his troubles if he could find a tiny spark of faith behind his massive cloud of doubt. Certainty and doubt always exist, and in Hamlet’s case, doubt does not have to control his life. Applying thoughtful reasoning between faith and doubt allows people to find a happy medium of certainty in their relationships, which then promotes a higher quality of social support and overall