Benito Mussolini Hamlet Analysis

He advanced despite the warnings of his advisors. His greed for more land and power had completely overtaken him at that point, dominating his mind at every turn. Unbeknownst to him, his plan stretched the capacity of his army too far. He is captured by the Allied army and killed. This is the story of how the devised plan of a notorious Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, caused his own assassination. However, Mussolini is not a lone wolf in terms of familiarity with the concept that one’s own plan can pave the path to one’s ruination. Parallels can be drawn to many individuals over the course of human history who have become the unwilling collateral damage of their own plans. A well-known example that demonstrates this concept is, of course, …show more content…
Throughout the duration of the entire play, Polonius was always sneaking around in the shadows, like a rat, listening to other people’s conversations and learning their secrets. After sending Reynaldo off to Paris to spy on Laertes, Polonius hatches a plan to use Ophelia in order for him and Claudius to spy on Hamlet. Polonius and Claudius overhear Hamlet telling Ophelia repeatedly to go to a nunnery. When the King shared his doubts that love had ruined Hamlet 's mind and his plans of sending Hamlet to England, Polonius, who is still convinced that love afflicts Hamlet, urges Claudius to make one more attempt to ferret out a satisfying reason for Hamlet 's behaviour. He then tells the King his plan to send Hamlet to Gertrude 's quarters later that evening. While Polonius hides behind the curtains and says on Hamlet, Gertrude should attempt to cajole Hamlet into revealing his innermost thoughts with Polonius as witness. However, things don’t go as planned and Hamlet mistakes Polonius for a rat, fittingly, and kills him. Polonius’ constant meddling in the lives of others, especially the Royal family, causes him to be treated like what he turned out to be, a sneaky rat. Polonius’ obsequious nature was an extremely influential factor that spurred the creation of the plan to spy on Hamlet. Polonius wanted to reveal the cause of Hamlet’s madness so that he could report his findings back to his honourable King, Claudius. In Hamlet’s informal epitaph to Polonius, he states, “Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell; I took thee for thy better; take thy fortune” (III, iv, 31), which indicates that even Hamlet was aware of the fact that Polonius’ constant need to spy and intrude on the privacy of others and his plan to use Gertrude to spy on Hamlet would lead to his downfall and sudden