Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not over happy; On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button. Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe? Rosencrantz: Neither, my lord. What is being personified in this excerpt?

Fortune is portrayed as a person wearing a cap and shoes, and the characters describe where they stand in relation to her. The cap and shoe imagery suggests their position on the scale of Fortune’s favor, or prosperity. Therefore, the personified idea is prosperity, not literal footwear or fashion.

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