Destiny is Dead in The Hand's of Bad Luck

Hamlet's fate in the play is quite clear once the reader realizes the plays plot. We have this man who is already depressed and torn apart over what he believes is his father's murder. His depression and "madness" beings to be verified to him when he speaks to his father's ghost. I believe the outcome of this is shaped both by divinity and his sometimes nonsensical course of actions. Had Hamlet's father never been murdered (divinity??) and had he never had any sort of suspicion to the death of his father like the other characters in the play (his character) there would be no course of action necessary for him to take. I believe that Shakespeare wanted to impose the belief of divinity being a means for a result simply by using a ghost as a character. In other plays he used soothsayers and other means to bring about the truth behind a matter. The fact that Hamlet speaks to his father's ghost brings about a feeling that there are bigger factors coming into play other than the bitterness Hamlet has against his uncle. However, Hamlet's constant over analytical plotting and double guessing himself brought about more harm than good it seems. His action/inaction lead to several death's that were seemingly unnecessary to help his cause (Polonius, Ophelia,etc...). The methods behind his madness did not help his master plan as much as it hindered his course of action further (although it made for great reading material). If Hamlet was not always a step ahead of everyone else and had he not had been a believer, there would be no Hamlet to begin with.

I honestly believe in the quote "Destiny is dead in the hands of bad luck". This means that divinty or destiny can only take a person so far. There is a path that is already paved for one to take but it is up to the person to choose how that path is going to turn out. The divinty aspect was a ghost appearing and speaking with Hamlet. The man's power with divinty is seen in Hamlet's choice to believe in the ghost and then follow up on the ghosts promting to avenge his death. Hamlet, when hearing his proof that his uncle is guilty of murdering his father (more divinity??), has a chance to confront him on it or wait it out. Hamlet waits it out and well, we all see how that worked out for him. It is a combination of divine power meshed with our own human instincts that lead to how things will turn out.

I feel that Hamlet truly believed he was put upon this path of destructive revenge by a higher power. He recognizes the ghost of his father to be, well, a ghost. I also think he recognizes that the choices he makes, even with the guidance of his father's ghost, played a hand in the outcome of the play. He recognizes that he is not the agent of God like he once said but just played with the hand he was dealt. I feel that "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, /Rough-hew them how we will" he is giving himself and his actions completly over to God. That this was the path god set him out on and he only being human only reacted as a human would.