In Reta A. Terry’s ‘Vows to the Blackest Devil’: Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England , his view of honor is that it changes greatly from one generation to another because the sense of honor revises. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as stated by Reta A. Terry, honor is identical with promise, “Yet, integral to the early modern honor code was, and is, the word, and Shakespeare’s use of the word of honor – of promise – can be examined in order to discern the shifting concept of honor itself” (Terry 1071). Terry goes on to describe how Shakespeare used honor in Hamlet by expressing, “Shakespeare’s characters’ concepts of honor can be perceived in the ways in which they use, and respond to, promise” (1071). Hamlet exemplifies honor