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Hamlet’s own personal views on divinity
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Hamlet’s own personal views on divinity
... Hamlet's own personal views on divinity change drastically throughout the play. He has an incessant struggle going on within his mind that is trying to determine which plays a more powerful role in his life; his own free will, or fate. Up until act 5 scene 2, I see him having a little bit more "faith" in his own cunning, but it is at that point in the story that he utters this statement to Horatio, " Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep. methought I lay worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly- and praised be rashness for it; let us know, our indiscretion sometime serves us well when our deep plots do pall; and that should learn us there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will-" (5.2.5-11). Speaking this remark shows that Hamlet's
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