Lesson Three - Hamlet

Conclusion

"'Character . . . is destiny.' But not the whole of our destiny. Hamlet . . . was speculative and irresolute and we have a great tragedy in consequence. But if his father had lived to a good old age and his uncle had died an early death, we can conceive Hamlet having married Ophelia and got thorough life with a reputation of sanity, notwithstanding many soliloquies and some moody sarcasm towards the fair daughter of Polonius, to say noting of the frankest incivility to his father-in-law." - George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist