How do the themes of Hamlet relate to modern life?
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Carlos Gomez English 1320 Swann 12:00-12:50 Word count - 827 03/06/06 There are some people who think that the theme in Hamlet, written by Shakespeare, is general and applies to our modern life. The truth is that there are a lot of differences between our modern world and Hamlet's world. Hamlet does not apply to our modern life. This is because is Shakespeare's time, women seem to be weak and easy to control, revenge appears to be in every family and Shakespeare makes it clear that there are a lot of problems within the royal families and they seem very unstable. One difference between our modern life and Hamlet's life, are the women, In the story Hamlet is describing her mother: "By what it fed on; and yet, within a month-Let me not think on't! Frailty, thy name is woman!" (1224) This lets us know that no one could have married another man within 2 months...

