ipl-logo

Compare And Contrast The Nose And Hamlet

924 Words4 Pages

Grace Donnelly
Mr. DeBella
Adv. English II
30 April 2023
Embarrassment, Secrets, and Shame One of the most daunting emotions is shame. At some point in their lifetime, people have shameful secrets to hide from the world. How people choose to deal with secrets and the resulting embarrassment takes a toll on their lives. In "The Nose" and Hamlet, the authors use the archetype of protagonists possessing a secret that they will do anything to cover up, which supports the idea that people prefer to keep a secret at their own expense and harm themselves by not receiving help rather than reveal the secret and be embarrassed. In “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol, the author illustrates the idea that embarrassment from a secret is worse than the harm resulting from keeping it by the main character valuing secrecy over help. Occurring in Saint Petersburg, Russia, protagonist Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov suffers an inexplicable incident where his nose disappears. Before he leaves his home, he covers his face with a cloth as if he is suffering from a nosebleed to conceal his appearance. In his desperate attempts to solve the issue, he traverses the town, searching for his lost appendage. Once he arrives at the newspaper office to place an ad, he refuses to give his name because even though it would help him find his nose, he is too embarrassed by the situation to reveal his identity. Despite his obvious need …show more content…

Dealing with an embarrassing situation is challenging and adding the fear of shame from the judgment of others make the situation even worse. In concealing their secrets, Kovalyov and Hamlet save themselves from embarrassment, but they struggle to overcome their situations without help from others. Even though the feelings of embarrassment and shame are overwhelming, disclosing secrets is a necessary part of overcoming a difficult

Show More
Related
585 Words | 3 Pages

Shame is a social punishment that everyone goes through at some point in their lives. It is meant to embarrass the person being shamed so that they may either learn or fix something, or it may even cause someone to change their life behaviors afterwards. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, as well as David Brooks’ The Shame Culture, shame is depicted as a very powerful tool that can be used at both the giver and receiver’s discretion to cause a course of action for change.

Read More
565 Words | 3 Pages

Hamlet and Simba: One and the Same, or the Complete Opposite? Hamlet, the renowned play written by William Shakespeare, tells the story of a boy who loses his father and faces hardship triggered by his uncle during the time of mourning. The Lion King, the famous Disney book, movie, and play, tells the same story in a different setting with different characters. Although Hamlet and Simba share many similarities, such as their relationships with their fathers and being exiled by their devious uncles, they also have differences in relation to their interactions with other characters in their stories. Hamlet and Simba share a similar relationship with their fathers.

Read More
851 Words | 4 Pages

Hamlet is one of the most remarkable tragedy plays in the world, thus there are many reproductions to create same sensation. Films of Hamlet are the most famous versions of these and there are so several films created. These include Branagh’s version released in 1996 and Tennant’s version released in 2009. Branagh 's film is four hours long movie trying to create the exact version of story Hamlet on the screen and Tennant’s is three hours long television film, famous because it is a modernized version of Hamlet. Although Branagh’s and Tennant’s versions films have vast differences, they are both be able to convey the play’s theme of madness in their films.

Read More
167 Words | 1 Pages

Hamlet and Simba both show signs of being depressed. A key indicator of this is when Hamlet says, “Nor customary suits of solemn black, / Nor windy suspiration of forced breath” (I.II 77-78). These lines in the play are critical for the readers to visualize the depth of Hamlet’s depression. Hamlet shows that he is being depressed by wearing all black clothes. Along with Hamlet, Simba also shows signs of being depressed throughout the movie.

Read More
734 Words | 3 Pages

It is no secret that the mothers mentioned in the story Hamlet by Shakespeare and the Disney movie The Lion King are not the most important characters. However, these women have an important yet subtle influence on the plot and their sons. They give love to their offspring, whether unconditionally or occasionally. Queen Gertrude and Queen Sarabi have very blatant similarities, like their reigning status and their sons, but they also have strong differences, like how they react in unfavorable situations, and how they take care of their responsibilities.

Read More
839 Words | 4 Pages

In more ways than one the world of Disney has somewhat interacted in the world of Shakespeare. Hamlet and The Lion King ,all though years apart in the making, have been drafted to be almost similar with little to no differences. They are similar in the ways of the plot and the moral background, but different as far as the ending transition of Hamlet and Simba are combined. The plot of Hamlet and The Lion King alike are about an Uncle to the King, or a heir next in line to the throne trying to gain power. Thus including some of the main characters being the King, the Queen, the King and Queen’s son, the son’s first love, his first loves’ father, two of the son’s instigating friends, and of course the son’s one and only true friend.

Read More
1803 Words | 8 Pages

“Knowledge is power,” Francis Bacon once said. The more one knows, the more one is able to control and change the world. Novels, such as Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, illustrate how knowledge gives one power. In Northanger Abbey, Austen tells the story of an unlikely heroine, Catherine Morland, who is obsessed with gothic novels. She travels with Mr. and Mrs. Allen to Bath, a resort and marriage market in England.

Read More
939 Words | 4 Pages

The setting of the movie is the first obvious difference that can be seen. The movie was set in New York City, New York in 2000 while the play was set in Elsinore, Denmark in the late middle ages. This greatly affects the way the movie is viewed because it is essentially an entirely different world. In the movie there are video cameras, cars, phones and skyscrapers, all things that obviously weren’t around during Shakespeare’s time. Even if the movie and the play had been based in the same year, the story still would have been slightly different.

Read More
735 Words | 3 Pages

There are many productions of Hamlet, but the two most popular are the 2009 film featuring David Tennant and the 1996 film featuring Kenneth Branagh. Overall, I believe that Hamlet was portrayed better in the movie with Kenneth Branagh, rather than the movie featuring David Tennant. One of the most significant scenes of the play is Act V Scene 2, where Claudius dies. In the Kenneth Branagh film, the costumes in this scene are very fitting of the time period of when Hamlet was alive. The men were mostly wearing tight pants with trousers and patterned jackets, while the women were all wearing colorful, poofy dresses.

Read More
699 Words | 3 Pages

Although Homer and Shakespeare lived centuries apart, they both managed to write their own masterpieces that were well ahead of their time. Homer, an ancient Greek writer creates a very intelligent character, Odysseus, who experiences the highs and lows of life and identity formation. Similar to Homer, Early seventeenth-century English playwright, Shakespeare, tailors his main character to have similar attributes to that of Odysseus. Both characters are intelligent, quick witted and natural born leaders, and their creators both focused heavily on their wits and their moral didacticism, which is portrayed throughout both the Odyssey and Hamlet. When creating Odysseus, Homer didn’t leave him without any admirable traits.

Read More
1160 Words | 5 Pages

Many compare the mere Disney movie The Lion King with the great shakespearean work Hamlet. It is commonly believed that The Lion King portrays itself as a remake of Hamlet. From an quick overlook of the two works, I cannot help but agree that they do in fact hold similarities. The common misconception that The Lion King was a remake of Hamlet typically derives from the identical plot found between both works.

Read More
1170 Words | 5 Pages

Hamlet Comparison Essay There are many qualities that make an effective and powerful leader. Some leaders strive for greatness; others strive to make history. Though their goals may differ, all can agree that the most important component of leadership is earning the respect of those who follow you and being responsible with the power you earn. There are many strong leaders in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, though not all are effective.

Read More
1102 Words | 5 Pages

In a humorous and satirical short story called The Nose published in 1836 in Russia, Gogol writes about a man who has a runny nose, meant in the literal sense. His main character a collegiate assessor named Kovaliov, wakes up and realizes that his nose is no longer on his face. It disappeared in the night and decided to become the nose of a man with much higher civil service rank. Kovaliov desperately tries to get his nose back, but fails and in the meantime he tries to find someone to blame. Before this all happened he was flirting with a girl he did not intent to marry, and therefore he thinks that her mother, who was not pleased with his flirting, was the cause of the loss of his nose.

Read More
1074 Words | 5 Pages

Marx and Engels wrote that capitalist globalization was completely eroding the foundations of the international system of states in the mid-1840s. Conflict and competition between nation-states had not yet over in their view but the main fault-lines in future looked certain to revolve around the two main social classes: the national bourgeoisie, which controlled different systems of government, and an increasingly cosmopolitan proletariat. Over revolutionary action, the international proletariat would insert the Enlightenment principles of liberty, equality and fraternity in an exclusively new world order which would free all human beings from exploitation and domination. Many traditional theorists of international relations have pointed to the failures of Marxism or historical materialism as an explanation of world history. Marxists had undervalued the vital importance of nationalism, the state and war, and the implication of the balance of power, international law and diplomacy for the structure of world politics.

Read More
880 Words | 4 Pages

Through the entirety of the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, the characters were overcome with the need for revenge as the outcome of many deaths. Therefore, no one was happy through “Hamlet” and it resulted in a tragedy. The character Hamlet played a big role in turning towards revenge and never would classify himself as being happy. Hamlet displays positive and negative behavior throughout the play. Hamlet exhibits strengths and weaknesses as well, although his weaknesses of over-thinking, bitterness, and his inability to accept the death of his father overshadow his strengths.

Read More

More about Compare And Contrast The Nose And Hamlet

Related Topics

Open Document