Parents serve as crucial role models towards their children. More specifically, a father shapes the core of stability within most families. Society has created the ideal father as secure, strong, and knowledgeable, a keystone for a successful child. In literature, there has always been common traits that father-son relationships poses, such as prideful masculinity, carrying the family’s name with honor, advisement, and security. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, once stated “I cannot think of any need in a childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection,” thus when a father figure becomes absent, the sense of stability gets thrown out the window. Within Hamlet, the catalyst of Hamlet’s mental instability, is the death/murder
