In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, cultural identity is explored through Hamlet’s isolation which is created by the conflict between his duty to his father, and his duties to the throne and society. Hamlet is isolated from his society due to his turbulent emotions, which result from his indecision on how to respond to his father’s murder. Hamlet’s duty as a son is to avenge the death of his father and he …showed first 75 words of 980 total…

…showed last 75 words of 980 total…as the killer he really is. Even though Hamlet uses the lack of evidence to justify his own previous inaction in this soliloquy , he also realizes that he needs proof for society to believe that Claudius is guilty in order to keep his noble status as Prince. The plan to use Horatio as a witness to any possible reaction of the King shows Hamlet’s awareness that proof will be necessary to justify his revenge.