Societal Connections
Hamlet highlights how it is human nature to want revenge if someone has done you wrong. Many people are obsessed with exacting their revenge, but their obsession doesn't consume their every act and thought like it does in Hamlet. People are willing to deceive others in order to get what they want. In fact, there are people who use deception as a means of making a living such as con-artists. Hamlet represents the extreme of what people are willing to do in order to get revenge. In society today, people want revenge, but if it will be more complicated or illegal, most people would just try to forget about it and move on. Madness is still prevalent in society, but people are not spied upon to determine what the cause of their madness is. Instead, people nowadays are put into institutions and are put through psychological testing to determine the cause of the person's madness. Society today is somewhat similar to that of Hamlet's, but they are also drastically different as today's society has better laws and technology.