Fate plays a rather important role in the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. It relates to the death of many characters, as well as their intentions, and the actions that follow. Although the individual characters" actions could be justified in such a way as to imply that they are completely random, the likelihood is slim. There is enough evidence in Hamlet, regarding fate, that the audience should have no trouble in identifying and examining it.
The protagonist of the play, Hamlet, suffers the fate of death by poison. He enters a fencing match with Laertes, and Laertes poisons the tip of his sword. When Hamlet is cut by it, his end begins. On that very note, the cup that Claudius offers Hamlet, to drink from, is also poisoned. When Hamlet is successful in the match, his mother accidentally drinks from the cup.
The mother's death is the first real example of a character's fate that could be, otherwise, justified as random. Upon examination, however, it is clear that this is fate. It serves as the punishment that Claudius must witness before he dies. She was one person he did not want to poison, and yet she is the person first poisoned in the scene. In addition, it makes sense that the entire family would die of this poison, in one form or another.
Ophelia's unfortunate fate is also that of death. She commits suicide by throwing herself into the river, and drowning. Her madness stems from the death of her father, killed by Hamlet (accidentally, as fate would have it). What makes it so obvious about her death being fate is the fact that she drowns herself among the same flower garlands that she gathered, earlier.
Vengeance is one of the motives used by characters in the play to carry out their actions. When Hamlet kills Polonius, Laertes exacts revenge on him using the tip of the poisoned sword. Fortinbras wishes to gain Denmark in order to avenge his father's death. Most importantly, Hamlet intends to kill Claudius for the murder of his father, Hamlet.
What about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and other complications? ... What kind of world would it be if nothing bad could happen? ... If I get the short end of the stick, there is nothing I can do. ... Call them fate, call them destiny, or call them the acts/will of God. ... Don't worry about whether the cards you received were dealt fairly or not. ...
The Greek hero battles fate with excessive pride and intelligence yet follows his fate, making some serious mistakes. No Greek hero knows fate like King Oedipus. ... There had been nothing he could do about it and he was forced to suffer from his actions. ... When they were looking for the previous kings killer, he made sure that everyone knew about the crime. He was blaming others, some at random and became very defensive when he was accused. ...
Better to live at random, best we can. ... Take such things for shadows, nothing at all " Live, Oedipus, as if there's no tomorrow!... Fate catches up with him at every turn. ... Oedipus believed that he could avoid the prophecy because he knew about it in advance. ... Early in the story, Oedipus, out of compassion for his suffering people, orders Creon to go to Delphi and learn about the murderer. ...
In the works "For Once, Then, Something," "Desert Places," "Design," and "Acquainted with the Night," Frost takes the concrete aspect of nature and illustrates things that are abstract such as rejuvenation, isolation, feelings about fate or destiny, and loneliness. ... The "blanker whiteness of benighted snow"(1013) truly has "nothing to express"(1013). ... He takes two of nature's most innocent characters, the moth and the spider, and finds tragic randomness in their lives. ... The design serves as fate or destiny because all three elements are white and they just so happen to gather...
One of these factors is fate. ... Another example of fate is that everyone who was about to tell Santiago about his upcoming murder had been suddenly distracted by the Bishop. ... A third example of this fate is when Santiago's mother locked the door. ... Also comparing the Santiago fate with the butterfly's fate suggests that Santiago is innocents as butterfly caries and connotation of innocents. ... Also Colonel Lazaro Aponte " thought they were nothing but a pair of big bluffers-. ...
Why is it that nothing can ever go right? ... Now of course its not just random people that you haven't ever really met but it's your friends who you thought were going to be there for you forever. ... Fate is another one of those things that I don't understand. How can it be fate if you are brought to a fork in the road and have to chose which way to go... how do you know that it was "fate" that made you choose the left side and not the 20 dollar bill laying 20 feet down the road. ... (Which I can spend another page just talking about). ...
If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.... We all understand that an object at rest will not randomly jump into the air unless an outside force causes it to. ... Pierre Simon de Laplace wrote: "An intellect which at any given moment know all the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that comprise it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit its data to analysis, it could condense into a single formula the movement of the gre...
A risk assessment is nothing more than a careful examination of what could cause harm to people so you can weigh up whether or not you've taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm. ... We cannot control the decisions of others and the decisions they make about how they will deal with risk in their lives will eventually affect us as well. ... Taking turns, each member of the group randomly selected one of the twenty cards that was either marked with one or two X's or was left blank. ... I can definitely see how easy it is to become paranoid about things that we have...