Asked by tt

Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not over happy;

On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.

–Hamlet,
William Shakespeare

What is being personified in this passage?

happiness
fortune
Guildenstern
a cap

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Fortune.

The line treats "Fortune" as a person who can wear a cap and have a "button" on it, so luck/fate is personified.