Using his God-given free will, Hamlet made decisions throughout the play that directly caused many deaths: Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Ophelia, Laertes, Claudius and himself. These losses are not the result of self-defense or fate. In any case, Hamlet's decisions During the Renaissance, the focus of learning and the arts was shifting away from the concepts of church and religion. People have become curious about earthly matters, including their environment and their own lives. Many Protestants believed in predestination, the belief that every past, present, or future event was predetermined. This ideology holds that whether our souls enter heaven or hell was predetermined before our birth and was independent of our human moral choices, as they had no power to influence their spiritual destination. On the other hand, Renaissance Humanism was a viewpoint that placed primary importance on human, rather than divine or supernatural, influences. The humanist belief emphasized the potential importance of human beings and was a philosophy that affirmed the human capacity to live ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspired to the greater good of humanity. Furthermore, classical tragedians capitalized on the conflict between fate and free will. At the heart of many tragedies is the struggle between the human disposition to simply accept fate and the innate tendency to govern fate. The quote: 'If it is now, it will not come; if it doesn't come, it will happen now; if it is not now, yet it will come: readiness is all (V.ii.206).” from Hamlet raises the question: is the future undecided and changeable or is it predetermined by fate? William Shakespeare's Hamlet may seem similar to a classical tragedy in which... in the center of the card... the murderer is responsible for the death of his father. If Hamlet had killed Claudius earlier, provided he had not been captured, he could have spared the lives of many others due to his undecided conscience, including his own. Hamlet's internal contemplation and emotions drive the more physical phases of the conflict and it is purely the internal conflicts that ultimately inflame the reckless display of violence. Using his God-given free will, Hamlet made decisions throughout the play that directly caused many deaths: Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Ophelia, Laertes, Claudius, and himself. These losses are not the result of self-defense or fate. In any case, Hamlet's decisions help create his revenge tragedy, as his choices directly and ultimately destroy him. help create his revenge tragedy, as his choices directly and ultimately destroy him.