How does dramatic irony strengthen our relationship with hamlet, while at the same time alienating us from the elizabethan conventions and customs?

Shakespeare is the most accomplished user of irony, according to the philosopher Kierkegaard. In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses irony as a device to make the reader confront Hamlet´s hesitation in becoming strong enough to follow his destiny, that is, to avenge his father´s death, or fall into madness. Irony is then a resource that Shakespeare presents to make the reader confront one´s own consciousness, allowing one to understand that the mind is not an entity that is structured from the onset (from birth, for example), but rather, it is a construct which, in the end, reveals the conflicting nature of identity and the formation of one´s own self. Finally, this is a marked deviation from Elizabethan conventions and customs, where the reign of Queen Elizabeth was all powerful, and where social stability did not encourage self-doubt, which, most decidedly, could lead to revolts or social unrest.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

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