| Aside from the common absolutes of this world, | | | | succession to the throne, Hamlet refused to |
| such as death, taxes, or even love, change | | | | admit his legitimacy. |
| remains the most feared. | | | | Yet, Hamletâs true problem did not lay |
| In William Shakespeareâs Hamlet, Prince | | | | with his dislike for his uncle, but with his fear of |
| of Denmark, the title character is a man haunted | | | | change. Denmark had prospered once under |
| by a changing world. In his eyes, his father, the | | | | Hamletâs father. When Hamlet had left |
| dead king, was the greatest leader ever to live. In | | | | his mother country to study in Wittenberg, the |
| comparison, his Uncle Claudius, who inherited the | | | | whole of Denmark began to mutate into a |
| throne, was an omen to Hamletâs world. | | | | different world. For these crimes of evolution, |
| Even though the people around Hamlet, including | | | | Hamlet waged a war against all the people he |
| his own mother, supported Claudiusâ | | | | knew and loved, even if he did not realize it. |