Topic > Hamlet's Character Analysis - 1231
The reason why he fights is the conflict between himself and himself. Shakespeare illustrates how Hamlet struggles to achieve his goal. Shakespeare explains Hamlet's internal conflict through this line: “the mind that suffers/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or that takes arms against a sea of woe.” His conflict is compared to his “extraordinary luck” and “mind capable of suffering”; Shakespeare also compares death to sleep, to sleep full of dreams. Hamlet weighs the problems of life against the unknown nature of death and the afterlife; the unknown nature can be “full of dreams” or scandalous luck. Therefore, Hamlet's internal conflict makes him his victim
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