Laertes

husband, Odysseus, by coming up with excuses not to marry the suitors until she knew for sure that he was dead. To avoid choosing a suitor to marry she said that she would chose a husband as soon as she finished weaving a shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes, even though he was not sick or ready to die yet. Everyday she would show them the progress that she had made weaving the shroud, but every night before she went to bed she would unweave all of her work and start over the next day so that the shroud

Themes of Penelope’s Heroism in The Penelopaid The Penelopaid is a novella which was written by author Margaret Atwood and published in 2005. It is a contemporary perspective narrated by Penelope, the wife of Odysseus and is an extension of Homer 's The Odyssey. In The Odyssey, the descriptions of the women and their lives is written from a masculine perspective, and does not relay the true depth of the female characters ' role, especially not Penelope. The Penelopaid however, tells the story from

Furthermore, Shakespeare portrays a parallel situation for Laertes just as Fortinbras and Hamlet, after the death of Polonius. Laertes is a young Danish lord and with his sister Ophelia, he is the son of Polonius. The death of Polonius comes unexpectedly and accidentally; however, its significance comes more considerably than that to Hamlet and Laertes. The contrasts between their response from the Polonius’ death gives another example of Hamlet’s femininity just as that of Fortinbras and Hamlet

Shakespeare’s use of Laertes and Fortinbras as foils for Hamlet exposes Hamlet’s character traits by setting a common goal for the three characters, that is, revenge for their fathers, but having them go about such a goal through different means, highlighting the differences between them and thus Hamlet’s individuality. Both Laertes and Fortinbras provide a contrast to Hamlet in regards to action vs. inaction, advice and duty, and sanity vs. madness, with Hamlet representing the latter for these

Character Analysis Laertes, a young Danish lord, is a character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Laertes is the son of Polonius and the brother of Ophelia. His name is taken from the father of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Hamlet and Laertes grew up together confiding in one another. Hamlet went away to Wittenberg and Laertes to Paris for school. The friendship parted ways at that point. Although Hamlet felt Laertes was a noble young man, he also thought of him as his foil. Laertes faces the same

Laertes is a foil to Hamlet because he was distracting Hamlet from his final goal. Hamlet and Laertes both want to avenge their father's death. Hamlet lets his opponent know that he is coming after them and Laertes is more unagitated about it.  Hamlet had more emotion towards his father two months had passed and he was still upset. Laertes on the other hand is more serious and manly about the situation. All Laertes is thinking about is killing Hamlet for two reasons. Hamlet has a necessity to kill

This connects with the character Laertes, as he used poison in his attempt at revenge. The reason for the revenge is that Hamlet killed Polonius and Laertes wants to avenge his father's wrongful death. Laertes challenges Hamlet to a fencing match, which would most likely not be lethal, but he dips the end of his blade in poison. During the match Laertes stabs Hamlet with the poisoned blade. Hamlet picks up the blade soon after he is stabbed and uses it on Laertes. This leads to both of their deaths

Claudius and Laertes developed an alliance towards the end of the novel to murder Hamlet. Both characters had distinct motivations to plot against Hamlet. In the novel, “Hamlet” the theme of revenge is crucial to the plot. Throughout the novel, many different characters believed they could repair the damage of someone else’s actions through revenge. For instance, Laertes wanted to seek revenge on Hamlet similar to Hamlet’s desire to kill Claudus. Both Hamlet and Laertes lost their fathers due to

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. Laertes wants to kill Hamlet because when Hamlet kills Polonious, he was in his mother bedroom, and he thought that the person that was in the bed was the king. Hamlet did not have any intentions to kill Polonious, his death was just a terrible mistake from Hamlet. Laertes had a sister named

types of characters. In Hamlet Laertes is absent throughout most of the play. However, he still has a complex personality. At times, Laertes’s actions are caused by differing traits and, therefore create conflicting outcomes such as, a loved sister and the death of many. Nevertheless, these characteristics are what make him himself. Laertes often becomes angry which sometimes leads him to action without thought, but he is caring, loyal and, religious to an extent. Laertes often lets his anger consume