Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii. Laertes: For he himself is subject to his birth; He may not, as unvalu’d persons do, Carve for himself, for on his choice depends The safety and the health of the whole state; And therefore must his choice be circumscrib’d Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head . Shakespeare most likely chose the word head instead of the word leader because it