Hamlet essay on emotion, fate and reason

Losing a loved one can take a harsh hit on one’s frame of mind. In the Shakespearian play Hamlet, the death of Hamlets father caused many problems, all of which eventually lead up to the tragic death of Hamlet. Each event that happens in the play is impacted by reason, fate and emotion. The events throughout the play that lead to hamlets downfall are determined by the roles of reason, fate and emotion. These three roles are key factors of the play. Reason plays the role of advancing the plot, especially when hamlet devises a plan to reassure the predication of his father’s ghost. Hamlet speaking to himself devises a plan, “For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ. I’ll have these players play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle. Ill observes his looks. Ill tents him to the quick. If he do blench, I know my course” (II.ii.ll-572-567). This advances the plot because, hamlet discovers his next steps he takes towards his father. Hamlets use of reason reassures him that his uncle is guilty. This causes hamlet to seek revenge, which triggers the play. This plan upsets Claudius, leads hamlet into falsely killing Polonius and eventually leading him to his downfall. Another role of reason is when it acts on Hamlets superego and he overthinks his chance to kill Claudius. While Claudius is praying, Hamlet spying on him says, “Now might I do it pat. Now he is a-praying. And not I’ll do ’t. And so he goes to heaven. And so am I revenged. – That would be scanned. A villain kills my father and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven. Oh, this is hire and salary, not revenge” (III.iii.ll-74-80). Due to Hamlets reasoning his superego causes him to overthink and not kill Claudius. Hamlet had the fear of Claudius going to heaven, being killed while praying. Hamlet misses his chance to kill Claudius, which establishes and allows Claudius to remain alive. This causes Hamlet to confront Gertrude