Activity 1.3 Journal reflection

Within society, we find numerous and different families everywhere. All families vary in different ways, whether it is culturally, or any other way. I believe that it is this that makes a family important to the society that surrounds it. Without specific family units in society, things would vary gravely. For example, a family that starts an SPCA in town would impact the whole society around them by attempting to help families get and give away animals when they can no longer care of them. As well as keeping them off the streets.

Certain things such as the way people are raised can also affect society. For instance, if a family isn’t going well because the parents are always arguing, one is taking drugs, or maybe violence is occuring (and other things of this kind), makes it complicated to raise their child or children properly and raised as a proper citizen. This can, at times, create problems. If the child starts to steal, vandalise or do some similar things, just because they need attention or don’t know any better, the whole society gets affected. So that one family has just affected the whole society.

In Hamlet’s case, this is what’s happening. Due to a series of unfortunate events escalating one after the other, Hamlet starts to act mad. When he does start acting mad, the whole society gets affected. This is why, people are reacting differently in hope, they can help him change back to normal. Also, the whole palace begins to revolve around Hamlet and how he has gone mad. Polonius, the king’s assistant, is even put in charge of listening to conversations going on between Claudius’s wife, Gertrude and Hamlet. Because of this, the society loses their leaders during a certain amount of time as well as some of the other important men working around. Not to mention the grief occurring due to the death of poor Old Hamlet. All in all, the society slowly starts to worry, and beings to care about the palace and only that.

In conclsuion, numerous things occured demonstrating that, the family unit was an important piece to the society.