Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:
These are very apt lines that could be said to lay down the moral of "Hamlet". If I am not mistaken, the movie adaptation starring Ethan Hawke used these line to close the movie, and very well done.
The elder Hamlet has all his devices and intentions overthrown, as not only the traitorous Claudius winds up dead, but also wife and son, and all the kingdom lost. Claudius obviously has his devices overthrown, losing the wife and crown he killed for, as well as his life. Even our protagonist Hamlet really has his devices overthrown as well. He does end up getting Claudius, but lost mother, lover, as well as life. Everyone gets hoisted on his own petard. The same could be said for Polonius as well as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. All dark designs meet their dark end.
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That our devices still are overthrown;
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:
These are very apt lines that could be said to lay down the moral of "Hamlet". If I am not mistaken, the movie adaptation starring Ethan Hawke used these line to close the movie, and very well done.
The elder Hamlet has all his devices and intentions overthrown, as not only the traitorous Claudius winds up dead, but also wife and son, and all the kingdom lost. Claudius obviously has his devices overthrown, losing the wife and crown he killed for, as well as his life. Even our protagonist Hamlet really has his devices overthrown as well. He does end up getting Claudius, but lost mother, lover, as well as life. Everyone gets hoisted on his own petard. The same could be said for Polonius as well as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. All dark designs meet their dark end.