DE Weekly: Hamlet, Shakespeare, & Fortune

Should we capitalize on our free will, or resign ourselves to what fate has in store for us? Is it better to take things into our own hands, or let nature run its course and whatever happens, happens? Does whatever we choose to do––does anything we choose to do––make a difference?

Such are just a few questions explored and answered in some fashion by William Shakespeare in his longest play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.