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commands him to seek revenge. He agrees to do so, but conflicted by his own nature, he does not act immediately. He concentrates on eternal fight between
free will and destiny. His uncle and the councilor have their suspicious about the young man and keep close watch. Falsehood and Playacting occur on all
sides creating mayhem and madness. Revenge is eventually exacted, but at a cost far too dear, all the primary objective characters, with the exception of
prince’s friend, suffer a tragic death.
1.2 Problem of the Analysis
In analyzing this play, the writer has some problem to be solved. The problems are:
1. How to differentiate free will and fate in free will and fate in Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
2. What are the relation of free will and fate in Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
1.3 Objective of the analysis
The objective of the analysis is to reveal free will and fate in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
1.4 The scope of the analysis
This analysis only focuses on free will and fate Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.
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1.5 Significance of analysis
By exploring the case of free will and fate in Shakespeare’s Hamlet play, it is expected makes readers know what is the free will and fate in Shakespeare’s
Hamlet play and enriching the literary study, and this thesis can be used as one of references for and as the guidance for literature students to study literary
works. I hope this thesis can be useful for further analyzing in the future.
1.6 Method of the analysis
Method of the analysis plays such an important role in completing an analysis, because without having method, it will be difficult to find the source
to support the analysis of the thesis. In this thesis, the information collected from various documents. The primary source will be Shakespeare’s Hamlet
play. The play was read and understood. While read it the writer pay attention to the sequence of the events described on the play. After that analyzed the
Shakespeare’s Hamlet play. Then the statements about the topic of the analysis were written down. Secondary the writer also read some books and
browsing internet to find out some data that related to the thesis. Finally the conclusion and Suggestion are made
1.7 Review of Related Literature
In supporting her analysis, the writer reads some related books which are listed as follows:
1. Understanding the Elements of literature by Richard taylor 1981
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poetry , which are defined and discussed in detail, with anatomy of techniques, devises and conventions. This books help the writer to describe
about drama. 2. Teori, Metode dan tekhnik Penelitian Sastra by Nyoman Kutha Ratna
2004 This book make the writer know how the technique and some approaches
of study literature that can be done in analyzed the thesis and to conduct a research particularly in study literature.
3. Theory of literature by Rene Wellek and Austen Warren 1977 This books give some the definition of literature, the scope of literature
and the methods in studying the literary works. It is very helpful to make the writer know about literature and can be a reference for this thesis.
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CHAPTER II THEORITICAL REVIEW
