Fate versus free will. Greek mythology believes that ultimately, there is no choice, fate will win. The Jewish assume all choice is by human, essentially free to decide our own fates. If I was to ask, the response most would say is that they do have the ability to make their own choices towards their future. We, as human beings have structured ourselves to believe that each choice is our own, any consequences or rewards will be strictly towards ourselves. But how far will our interpretation of choices go? We can’t turn back time, or venture into the future, let alone predict what might happen tomorrow. Many aspects in our lives have a limit to our choices.
In regards to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, free will versus fate stemmed from the belief that unavoidably, God controlled everyone’s fate. As a moral obligation to obey the Bibles caution, the player king in Hamlet sums up the dilemma when he recites these lines: ”Our wills and fates do so contrary run that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.” (Act 3, Scene II, Line 208)
Throughout the play, various occurrences will arise,
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Throughout the play, Hamlet is endlessly grieving over the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother to his uncle, which undeniably upset the balance to which he was already accustomed to. Instead of considering why everything was happening, Hamlet chose to continuously grieve rather than celebrate. Hamlets suffering resulted in an agreement that due to his mental state, was unavoidable and shouldn’t have been considered. Bearing in mind the state he was in, he wasn’t able to think for himself, therefore was positioned to make the wrong decisions. From this, the audience is able to understand that sometimes inaction is the worst possible thing someone can