Fate vs. Free Will In the play of "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare the main character Hamlet draws a great fascination and mystery. Is he a victim of fate or the master of his own destiny? Throughout the play, he showed a variety of characteristics, which contradict each other. He can go from calm, logical, sensitive and trusting to insane, drastic, paranoid and skeptical in a matter of moments. Although he successfully killed Claudius, and achieved …showed first 75 words of 1580 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1580 total…Claudius, but he died of poisoning too. This again proved that he is a victim of his own fate. Hamlet is a tragic hero who meets his tragic end. If he had not procrastinated so much, if he had not putted on an "antic disposition", if he had not believed in fate or if he had not chosen the path that he did, he would have been considered as a master of his own destiny.