How do the studied poets and Shakespeare use literary techniques to show how people respond to forces in the world over which they have no control?

For this assignment i will be figuring out and going into detail with the term fate, also the contents of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, On First Son’ by Ben Johnson Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas, also identifying literary techniques used in going against fate, as well as the characters in the poem trying to avoid or taking fate.

In the very first two poem by Johnson and Thomas fate is presented as an accursed curse where the loved ones were stolen from them, written by the author. Hamlet also asked us to think about fate and consider whether it is better to be alive or dead or is it more dignified to put up with all the horrifying things that fate gives you without any option/consent?

Mixed emotions were deeply felt as all three speakers have lost someone close to them but one emotion that strongly stands out is anger. This is particularly shown inthe  two poems. Dylan Thomas ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ as similar to On My First Sonne: in the first poem a young boy was not able to let the elderly man (his father) go: he said ‘do not go gentle into that good night’ meaning don’t die without a fight, fight for your survival, fight against your destiny.  Hamlet can be seen as fairly similar but with a different type of emotion which is rage. Hamlet sought revenge for his fathers death but it is  not like the other deaths – this was a murder and his father was killed.

In ‘Do Not Go Gentle In That Good Night’ Dylan Thomas is telling the reader that no one should die without putting up with a fight, he talks particularly about role models as they are meeting there death; old men, wise men, wild men, grave men. They are all particularly at there old age and are confront ted by fact ‘death’, He picture his dad as a role model a ‘god’ that he looks up to and now he is being confronted by fate he is telling everyone to not go out without a fight. His dad ison a ‘sad’ hieght above him. hecan curse dylan thomas and blless himn and he is ‘fierce’ evgen tohugh he is a god to dylan thomas the ooem asks him to resist death and to not die. the poet wants his dad to usehis ‘immortals god like powers’ but tragically hes dead and heecant stop that it is fate. Anger is represented here in an sad way because the poet asks us to resist death but at the same time he knows that even a god will die ‘thomas is writing in 1947 just after the secound world war where most of the popuklation started doubting god and relgion has stopped being somthing they will rely on to console…