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Hamlets "Faith" Cost him his Life A great chain of events in "Hamlet", Shakespeare's great revenge tragedy, leads to Hamlets own demise. His necessity for subterfuge allows him to inadvertently neglect is main objective, revenge. So much so that the ghost of his dead father appears to stipulate Hamlets reserved behavior towards his fathers revenge. "Do not forget. This visitation is to whet thy almost blunted purpose," (83-84) says the ghost in a motivational manner …

…my cause I see the portraiture of his", (124) Hamlet says, suggesting he understood that he was destined to die. We furthermore see that Hamlet does not lose faith in his fathers ghost. The ghosts' second visit demonstrates this when he inspires Hamlet to finally finish what he has started. And as for faith in divinity, Hamlet himself remarks that a divine power controls our purposes when he says, "There's a divinity that shapes our ends" (121)