Internal and external forces contribute to the development of the character Hamlet. The external forces are those, which are beyond Hamlets control. The internal forces are those, which come from within a character. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet experiences internal and external forces that help develop his character. At the beginning of the play Hamlet is emotional and is in control of his life. But as the play progresses, he begins to accept things that happen to him and eventually he gives in to his fate.
The play opens with Hamlet's father's death and his mother marrying his uncle. Hamlet then shows that he is suicidal by stating: "too sullied flesh would melt." Hamlet does not commit suicide because "the everlasting has fixed his common 'gainst self-slaughter'". And then Hamlet finds out that his uncle killed his father. Hamlet swears to take revenge on his father's death when he told the ghost of his father that he
At the end of the play, Hamlet has given up trying to control his destiny and accepts reality. He also is able to stop thinking so much and walks the walk. When Hamlet jumped onto a pirate ship it shows that he does not think about consequences much anymore. He is a more active character, not a bench warmer, a true player. Hamlet tells Horatio "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will". This shows his surrender to fate. Hamlet then is challenged to a duel from Laertes. He accepts the duel and tells Horatio that if he is meant to die he will and that if he is not, he will not. "There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow," saying that each creatures destiny is "mapped out" already so it is best to "let it be". When Hamlet accepts the duel, he shows his surrender to fate.
Towards the end of the play, Hamlet sees Fortinbras asking to go through Denmark to she can fight a war in Poland. This war was for a sm
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