After this prescribed period of time elapsed, the Kauravas refused to relinquish the throne to the Pandavas, and war became necessary. Who meets with such a fight which, falling to his lot by chance, Throws open the door of heaven. He is especially grieved to see his beloved teachers, Drona and Bhisma, armed against him. Pain causes his vision to narrow. Arjuna takes this dualistic vision to heart, and he coalesces into a body that cannot act.
Circumstance arises through activity and demands response within it.
This inability for Arjuna to do so literally shakes him to the core. Unfortunately for Hamlet, he has no access to a Krishna to lead him out of crisis. He lives in a society fraught with dead beliefs. The Christian churches may hold political sway, but excepting the rare mystic who would usually be regarded as a heretic, these institutions had long been divorced from the origmal living vision from which they arose. Hamlet is educated at the University of Wittenberg, a center of philosophic learning.