Hamlet And Hamlet By William Shakespeare

What is madness? Is someone considered mad or insane simply because they are different, and they, in turn, see the rest of the world as insane? William Shakespeare 's play Hamlet is about a complex protagonist, Hamlet, who plays the role of a tragic hero. He encounters several misfortunes from experiencing his beloved father’s death, witnessing his mother 's incestuous remarriage to his uncle, and seeing his father’s ghost. Due to all of this, Hamlet falls into a deep depression. Hamlet begins his journey by seeking revenge against Claudius after discovering that his noble father was murdered by his own uncle. Hamlet is a character whose actions and emotions may seem like one of an insane person, however, in the beginning of the play, it is clear that he decides to fake madness in order to gain an advantage over Claudius. This would aid in him in accomplishing his revenge. Hamlet is sane throughout the play: he only shows signs of insanity in front of certain people whom he does not trust. However, even they believe that his madness is not sheer madness but has a reason to it. Hamlet’s character is sane as in the play his rationality is shown through the logic and intelligence he uses in his plots. He usually calculates his movements and his impulsive acts are justified. While there are reasons to believe that many of the hardships could have driven Hamlet to the point of insanity, his display of intelligence and rational thinking throughout the play proves his sanity.

The male characters in Hamlet continually abuse both Ophelia and Gertrude, physically and psychologically, as a pathetic attempt to gain power and control over the situation. One of the greatest examples of psychological abuse comes from the harrowing scene where Hamlet and Ophelia have their final conversation before Hamlet leaves for England. During this rage-induced altercation, Hamlet refuses to accept Ophelia’s returning of the gifts previously given to her from him, saying “I never gave you aught” (3.1.97). Ophelia is appalled as Hamlet continues to insult her and laugh in her face. In the climax of the argument, Hamlet tells Ophelia that she “should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you not” (3.1.117-119). The immense amount of psychological damage received by Ophelia between the addition and removal of love by Hamlet and her father’s death is enough to drive anyone to madness. David M. Smith recounts this as Hamlet’s necessity “to genuine outsideness because of the danger of being co-opted by love” (Smith, 1). However, Hamlet no longer needed to protect himself in his situation. His actions from this scene were not only uncalled for, but added to the slow mental demise of his sweet Ophelia. Hamlet’s next scene of abuse come shortly after this when he goes to speak to Gertrude about her participation in the murder of Old Hamlet. His rage, yet again, takes over, but this time he adopts physical abuse

One major difference is their personalities. They are polar opposites. Hamlet was very concerned about right and wrong and was very careful to plan out his revenge, he made sure before he acted. Allowing for deviousness in planning his uncles death. Laertes very rash, not caring who fell to revenge his father. He embodies action, while Hamlet embodies thought. Due to his insanity, Hamlet eventually becomes rash, like Laertes. Both men loved their father and held them in high regard. Thats the reason why they want to revenge their fathers. But, their “fathers” did not trust them.

They both love Ophelia. Hamlet is a scholar at Wittenberg and Laertes at France. Both are admired for their swordsmanship. Both men loved and respected their fathers.

Laertes and Hamlet are foil characters as we all know. They act nothing alike. What I am gonna tell you how they are the same and how they are different so you know they are foil characters. What characteristic do you think they have that explaines why they are foil characters.Hamlet was a character who you would have thought he was clever and played circles around everyone when they thought they had played a circle around Hamlet. He acted mad and crazy, “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed, His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God, How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!” Act 1 Scene 2. The only reason he acted like that is because his whole life was falling apart, he was depressed, his dad died and his mom remarried within two months of the death of her husband. He was always right about people he tried to warn his mother about the new king, and how he killed the old Hamlet which was the old king. Hamlet just wants to be protective of his mother, he does not want her to get hurt any more than she already is. Laertes is Ophelia’s brother, he tries to protect her from things. Laertes is a guy who, if things does not go as planned or if he threatened then he wants to fight and settle it. The only thing wrong with that is if he always done that then he would be killed by now already. The king

Hamlet and Laertes share a different but deep love and concern for Ophelia. Before his leave to France, Laertes provides lengthy advice to Ophelia pertaining to her relationship with Hamlet. Laertes voices his concern of Hamlet's true intentions towards Ophelia and advices her to be some what wary of his love. Laertes tells Ophelia

Even though Hamlet and Laertes come from different worlds they have a lot of similarities and differences. On one side they are similar because they both want to get revenge for their father’s deaths, they both have a strong love for Ophelia and they both are very loyal sons to their fathers. But on the other hand they are very different because Hamlet is more of a thinker than a doer and Laertes is more of a doer. Hamlet is a very moody character while Laertes is very passionate about everything he does. The Differences between Hamlet and Laertes are striking, and they deserve thorough examination. At the beginning of Hamlet, Hamlet has many characteristics such as he is more of a thinker than a doer, he is very bitter, Hamlet is very depressed and suicidal. Hamlet is more of a thinker than a doer because Hamlet has a lot of soliloquies throughout the play explaining his thoughts about everything (act 1 scene 2). He is also very bitter through the play towards his mother and new stepfather because he knows how his father died. Also he doesn’t approve of how fast his mom moved on from his father and onto his uncle. “Queen: the lady does protest too much, I think. Hamlet: Oh, but she’ll keep her word”(act 3 scene 2). Also Hamlet is very Depressed and suicidal at the beginning of the play because he’s whole life is falling apart. “oh , that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and turn into dew!”(act 1 scene 2). Another example is “I have lost all of my happiness,

Firstly, Hamlet and Laertes are similar because both of their fathers are murdered during the play. Hamlet's father was killed by his uncle, Claudius, and Laertes father, Polonius, was killed by Hamlet. Both Hamlet and Laertes react similarly to their father's death. They both want to seek revenge for their deaths, however, both characters demise is from seeking revenge. Laertes proclaims “I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery”(Act V. Scene i. 337). Laertes states this when he is stabbed by his own poisonous fencing sword. If he wouldn't of attempted to seek revenge he wouldn't of died. Similar to Laertes, Hamlet dies because he

A more noteworthy comparison between Hamlet and Laertes would be each man’s intense relationship with Ophelia, the former’s love interest and the latter’s sister. Both men are passionately preoccupied with Ophelia’s actions, mainly those pertaining to her sexuality, but in different ways. Prior to the events in the play Hamlet actively pursues a romance with Ophelia, but during his staged madness he violently criticizes her for acting at all interested in his advances. As the play progresses Hamlet flips back and forth between sneering at Ophelia and declaring his love for her, but in either case he shows an obvious devotion to the girl. Laertes holds the same amount of devotion, but towards protecting her from Hamlet and anything else that may compromise her virtue. When he is told of her descent into

The Foils are secondary characters that have differences or mutual things with the main characters, and they also help to give more protagonist to the principal character. Hamlet has different foils, and one of them is Laertes. Laertes is put in the play as the antagonist of the play. Laertes and Hamlet have a mutual feeling, revenge. Both of them want to take revenge for the death of their respective fathers.

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the character Hamlet must deal with both external and internal conflict. Hamlet encounters many struggles and has trouble finding a way to deal with them. With so many corrupt people in his life, Hamlet feels as if there is no one that he can trust and begins to isolate himself from others. A result from this isolation leads Hamlet to become melancholy. Hamlet struggles with suicidal thoughts, wants to kill King Claudius, and is distraught over his mother’s hasty marriage with his uncle Claudius.

These three characters have massive similarities when it comes to the circumstances they are placed in, yet their unique personalities lead them to take very different actions. Hamlet and Laertes share rage over their individual losses, Hamlet surpasses Prince Fortinbras in motivation and justification for revenge, yet only Prince Fortinbras and Laertes are able to take action unconditionally to avenge their fathers. In the play, Hamlet has many chances to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle, but he fails to do so until the very last moment. While Hamlet could have killed King Claudius by simply poisoning his food, he went to the extent of maintaining an antic disposition, playing with Ophelia’s heart, lashing out at his mother, and killing an innocent ‘fool’ (Polonius) eventually ending in his own death. Although he ultimately achieves his goal by killing King Claudius, Hamlet subconsciously initiates more problems than are necessary. As the protagonist, Hamlet has a very complex character developed by Shakespeare through the use of literary foils. Prince Fortinbras and Laertes are extremely critical to the play since they offer insight into the cause of Hamlet's downward spiral. Without literary foils to draw attention to Hamlet’s internal weakness, it would be difficult for the audience to determine

The play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, is set in an anti-feminist era. Women traditionally have been seen inferior to men. This was an intellectual as well as a physical issue. Women were to raise a family, cook, clean, be pretty and not be smarter than any man. The main characters Ophelia and Gertrude are both depicted with these characteristics as powerless and frail people. This illustration of helpless women affects one's understanding of what their true selves could be.

Shakespeare writes in a way that is difficult to understand for anyone that speaks the modern language. His story Hamlet is understood through the emotions felt by his characters. Hamlet is the main character who is conflicted with revenge and conspiring friendships. Hamlet returns home from Germany for his father’s funeral only to find far more troubling things. Hamlet is a conflicted character but that doesn’t stop him from knowing what he wants. Revenge is the main cause of his confliction but with great reason, which is important to understand about this play because it helps explain all the betrayal and tragedy.

No two people are the same, however they can have similar characteristics. In the play Hamlet Laertes is a foil to Hamlet because they bring out the differences in each others character’s. The differences between Hamlet and Laertes are striking, and they deserve thorough examination. Although they bear some minor similarities, the differences between their two characters is clear. Through this essay I will provide evidence showing the similarities and differences between Laertes and Hamlet. In the beginning of Hamlet Laertes, Polonius's son, is described as a very short tempered, brave, and passionate young man who is very skillful with a sword. In act 5 scene 1 at Ophelia’s funeral Laertes is upset with the priest because in the christian church her death was viewed as a suicide, so she was not to be buried with all the proper ceremonies. He says “ Lay her n' the earth and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, a ministering angel shall my sister be, when thou liest howling”(Act 5, Scene 1). This quote shows that he was very passionate about his sister and believes that she deserved a proper burial because of the women she was and the way she carried herself. In act 4 scene 7 Laertes says “Under the moon, can save the thing from death that is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point with this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, it may be death.”(Act 4, Scene 7). In this Owens 2