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Hamlet's View Of Life

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From suicidal to a longing for life, Hamlet’s perspective of death has changed dramatically throughout the play. In act five he, with such equanimity, finally accepts his inability to control the inevitable, for him it is best to be ready for death at anytime. The reader gets a glimpse of Hamlet’s new world view when he states “ There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.” His belief in a divine force controlling everything has stopped him from analyzing every decision he makes. Emotionally, he is prepared for death, knowing it will come when God wants it to come, not Laertes, or Claudius. Consequently, he decides to fight with Laertes as soon as the request came in. Hamlet's psychological changes in act five can
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