Hardship, unfortunately, is a part of everyone's life. It is unavoidable, and in
             Hamlets case he found out that bad luck comes in colossal amounts at a time.
             Most people see bad luck as getting splashed by a car in the rain, or finding
             out that the idiots at McDonald's forgot the fries in your order. But Hamlet got
             a quadruple dose of bad luck. First his father was unjustly murdered. Then the
             ghost of his father comes back and tells him that he is to avenge his death. To
             top it all off Hamlet finds out that his mother has just married his late
             fathers assassin. When Hamlet tries to expose the new king of killing his father,
             he is exiled to England because the other people thought that he was mentally
             ill. When Hamlet returns to Denmark he finds his secret love Ophelia being
             buried. Hamlet feels that he is living in a world of horror, and by the end of
             this miserably disheartening play, his fathers death is avenged, but at quite a
             cost. Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Laertes, and Polonius are all dead. I
             would have to say that all of the adversity in hamlets life had to have a great
             affect on his spirit. One can not go through life, and Hamlet had a short one,
             lose all of the people that you love and expect it to not dishearten you a
             little. And in Hamlets case it pretty much drove him insane.
             The human spirit is a very fragile thing, and something as tragic as the death
             of a loved one can damage it greatly. As in Hamlets case, when his father was
             murdered, this started a sort of devastating chain reaction of the psyche. He
             started to "go nuts", and it showed. The people around him started noticing this
             drastic change in his personality. But his insanity was most evident during the
             play which he set up and called "The Mousetrap". Hamlet sat fidgeting in his
             chair, staring at Caudius with accusing eyes. When his little trap had run it's
             course, Claudius had just about been broken. Ha...