There is a sense in which we are all pawns thrown down into circumstances that shape our lives. Hamlet , the potential king , is no exception , he is faced with his father’s murder and his mother’s fickleness so it is no surprise he is driven to instability and some have suggested madness.
He attempts to set things right , something we all try to do in our own way , and of course he is doomed to failure. No man can straighten the world out and in the end as he is dying he begs Horatio to explain his stumbling motives of his actions.