- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Jim has made it aboard the Hispaniola, where he sees a wounded Israel Hands, who has just fought with another pirate, O’Brien, and killed him. Although the doctor is the pirate’s enemy, Hands recognizes that he would be grateful for some professional expertise in order to survive.
Here, Hands helps Jim to recognize the significant role that fortune and luck play in determining what happens to people. In the world of the novel, many things are indeed left up to luck, with no overarching reason or fate behind them. People can only identify events as based on luck rather than…