Big Hutch Can Relate Much... But Can We?

As I listened to the experience of prisoners who acted out Hamlet, I immediatley felt empathy for Big Hutch. His gravely voice, and the way he spoke, made you feel the intensity of his character. This was obviously a man who was in prison for a reason. When he was criticizing the play, and asking why Hamlet kept second guessing his decision to kill his uncle, he told us basically why he was in prison, for murdering the rapist of his daughter. His story isn't out of the usual for the other prisoners. They are all dangerous people, people you wouldn't really want to associate with. People who share barely anything in common with us... the "normal" people. But that is why they can associate so well with Hamlet, and the characters in Hamlet. Those fictional characters hold so many likenesses with the prisoners, that it lets the prisoners interpret them, and relate to them, in such a different way then us mere "normal people" could ever do. And, because of this insight that they hold, they can portray such a different image of Hamlet that we could ever completely understand.
That made me look at my own experience with Hamlet. Let me first say that I am completely opposed to what the uncle did, obviously it was wrong - murder generally is. But why fight fire with fire? Two wrongs don't ever make a right. So what would killing the uncle do for Hamlet? Nothing. Just dirty his own hands. Therefore, I cannot understand Hamlet's actions at all. How can someone who has not experienced something similar to these characters interpret the play? If you are completely naive in a subject like this, how can you relate to the characters? Can I really compare my strong feelings - a failed test, my dog swallowing a sock - to those of Hamlet's? Which would be the murder of his father? I don't really think so. The events that take place in my life are so un-similar to those that take place in Hamlets, that I cannot relate at all, and am left to understand the play with the little knowledge of murder that I have from other movies and books.