sleeping in "incestuous sheets" and if it is not
             good, "nor it cannot come to good" (I.ii.162-3), we must wonder what virtue
             is left for Hamlet. The act has indeed altered his thinking. The
             beautiful world he believed in no longer exists. His traditional values
             are no under speculation. For example, he tells Guildenstern, "This
             majestical roof, fretted/with golden fire--why it appeareth nothing to
             me/but a foul and pertilent congregation of vapors./What a piece of work is
             a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties . . . the beauty of
             the world, the paragon of the animals; yet to me, what is this quintessence
             of dust'" (II.ii.324-32). The world is no longer governed by reason, it is
             ruled by "fortune and inconstancy--only chance and change. In his view,
             everything is mutable, nothing in the world abides. Rather than reason
             guiding and sustaining men's actions, purpose follows memory, memory
             follows passion, and passion follows fortune" (Blits). In addition, "just
             as neither their loves, their memories, nor their v
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