Stay True To Oneself In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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Throughout Hamlet there is a hidden theme and it is to stay true to oneself one big example of this is when Polonius Says “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” When he says this we start to realize that this is a theme in the play. It makes us start to think who stays true to themselves and who does not, also how one is true to themselves.

Out of every main character, Hamlet is the only one who stays true to himself. Hamlet has one goal in mind and everything he does is to advance this goal. Sometimes it comes across that he is simply losing his mind but later on we see that it was a part of his plan the whole time. No matter what happens to Hamlet it does not change