The theme or topic being personified in the excerpt from "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare is prosperity, as stated in option B and explained below.
What is personification?
Personification is a figure of speech which personifies or attributes human qualities to objects or phenomena of nature, usually with the purpose of conveying an idea or opinion, or simply to describe them in a more vivid way.
In the dialogue between Hamlet and Guildenstern, prosperity is described as Fortune possessing a cap of which we are not even a button. Possessing a piece of clothing is a human behavior, which means prosperity was personified here.
With the information above in mind, we can select option B as the correct answer.
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