Greif, love, conspiracy, and determination; all these things anyone and everyone experiences in their life on a regular basis. However very few are royalty and have to deal with them all at once and be told to act as though these feelings don’t exactly exist. In the short time span of the play, Shakespeare creates for the title character, a heartbreaking and twisted life where the odds of the world seem to fully be against him. However, through all this, Shakespeare evolves Hamlet from a state of grief to a state of witty determination, with the seeming side effect of lunacy. Hamlet interacts with characters, many of which are, in a sense, “against” him and the intentions of his responses to their actions are far from what they expect. Though