Determining theme: which theme is best supported by the passage?
1. horatio: they bleed on both sides. how is it, my lord?
osric: how is it, laertes?
laertes: why, as a woodcock to mine own
springe, osric;
i am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.
- hamlet,
william shakespeare
2. the strongest will always prevail.
o perfect justice can never be achieved.
revenge is ultimately self-defeating.
there is dignity even in defeat.