Lamenting Life's Losses The adolescent's early years of entry into adulthood shape how he or she will view life, death, and all the complexities intertwined in these two topics. Shakespeare's Hamlet exemplifies this statement and also shows the drastic changes that can occur in a person's mindset when faced with a tragedy. While the monumental events that currently transgress Hamlet's moral conscience drive him to kill Polonius, a distinctive and permanent change manifests itself in Hamlet's temperament regarding his motive for revenge, the fear of eternal damnation if he kills his uncle, and the manner in which he treats those around him. him. The most immediate of these changes occurs immediately after Polonius' murder, as Hamlet confides in his mother. Up to this point in the play, Hamlet has shown a lot of hatred and mistrust towards his mother. Hamlet insults Queen Gertrude by declaring her marriage "incestuous," saying that with "evil haste" she overcame her husband's death and "laid / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets" (1.2.160-61). In view of Polonius' murder, Hamlet wishes "(it was not so) [that] you were my mother" (3.4.21) saying that he would rather not be Gertrude's son at all. Then, as Hamlet thrusts his sword into Polonius, who hides "behind the tapestry," Gertrude once again becomes Hamlet's mother and his new confidante. Hamlet finally shares his feelings towards Gertrude, "[living] / In the rancid sweat of a seasoned bed / ... and making love / Above the ugly pigsty" (3.4.104-06). Also, the fact that Hamlet stabs Polonius and immediately asks, “Is he the king?” should speak for itself to the queen's and reader's ears that Hamlet trusts her enough not to care whether she knows her intentions to kill Claudius or... .... in the middle of the paper ......here's a / special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it is / now, it will not come; If it doesn't come, it will happen/now. If it's not now, it will come. . . Leave it alone" (5.2.233-38). The fear of death no longer hovers in Hamlet's heart and he plans to face his fate. Making this change probably the most noble and practical change in Hamlet as a character. at the climax of the murder of Polonius, exponentially honorable and terrible changes occur in Hamlet's heart and he has little to no control over them, but these changes define him as the noble and princely man who becomes over the course of the story a work full of treachery and corruption allows his soul to feel the emotion and drama raging around him, and as these things cause a serious change in him, he grows into a better man..