Shakespeare’s view on life

One similarity seen with hamlet and some of Shakespeare’s sonnets that we looked at in class is their outlook on life. As a tragedy, hamlet is written to show the negative affects that human decisions can have. It makes life seem almost hopeless… As if we are all doomed to this fate. Although many of the sonnets we read focused mainly on love and how glorious it can be, the thing that relates them to hamlet is the tone that they used when discussing “the end”, or the effects of ones decisions. Sonnet 18 shows that with time, beauty will naturally fade as a result of life. Sonnet 29 shows the fault in our society, social rejection, which leads to self loathing. Sonnet 1 shows the negative effects that selfish decisions have on others. These comparisons show the correlation between hamlet and Shakespeare’s sonnets. They both show that humans are doomed to a tragic fate that we have predestined, simply because we’re human.