Select a word you think is vital to (and prevalent in) the play (revenge, action, rank, virtue, see(n), world, man, demon/angel, matter, bawd/harlot/strumpet or another word of your choice). Then use the following website to search that word just in Hamlet. Once you see when/where/how it appears so far in the play (through Act 4, Scene 2), write a paragraph on its significance. You may want to consider how the word is variously used and to what effect, who uses it and when/why, how it speaks to a larger question/theme/character issue. Basically, you're exploring this word as a representative one in the play thus far and telling us why.
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/search/search-keyword.php
The word "fortune" is used often throughout Hamlet. A synonym for fortune is luck; however, fortune is often used in irony in the instances in the play. Additionally, the word is typically seen capitalized, to refer to the Roman goddess Fortune, who was the bringer of luck, whether good or bad. Hamlet is the only character in the play to say the word fortune, and when he does so, he comments on the situation that Denmark has landed in. For example, when he reunites with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act 2 Scene 2, Hamlet says, "what have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison hither?" Hamlet also often curses Fortune, such as in Act 2 Scene 2 when he calls her a "strumpet", to say that she has had too much influence on the circumstances. The use of fortune in the play represents the unfavorable conditions that the characters have been placed in, which Hamlet struggles with the most.
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