Are Tragedies More Interested in Making Us Accept Hard Truths about the Nature of Life or Are They Designed to Reassure Us that They Can Be Overcome? Consider this Question in Relation to "Hamlet"

A stage tragedy is defined as a play about momentous events in which an individual of noble qualities falls into misfortune though a flaw of character. Such flaws are often said to be directed by fate, and thus the question whether we should accept tragedies as hard truths about the nature of life, or challenge that they can be overcome? A close study of Shakespeare's tragic character Hamlet allows us to examine the two premises. …