Hamlet And Killings Analysis

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” is a quote said by Lois McMaster Bujold. When someone loses their life, they no longer get the opportunity to get revenge. It is up to the living to get the revenge or justice that they feel is fair. Justice is all about moral rightness, and this is shown to you when you discover the truth of justice in the two very similar stories, “Hamlet” and “Killings”. In both Hamlet, and Killings, a loved one is lost and it is left up to someone else to seek justice. In the story of “Hamlet”, Hamlet loses his father to a cruel murder so he goes seeking justice for the one who killed his father. In “Killings”, a man named Matt loses his son, Frank, and does everything

He wants Strout to pay for what he did to his son. Therefore, he believes he is the main protector of his family so he feels as if it is his job to take control and take care of any situation that comes along. Matt believes justice is all about getting what one deserves. In the story, it says, “Everyday in his soul he shot Richard Strout in the face”. This quote from the story shows that because Strout killed his son, Frank, he wants revenge, badly. Therefore, he imagines every single day that he is shooting richard strout in the face to get what he feels Strout deserves. Matt has many motives to get revenge on Richard Strout. These motives include: killing his son, Richard being married to his wife, Ruth, before him, severe grieving over the loss of his son, and abusing Ruth when they were married. However, I definitely feel as though the murder of his son was the main motive for getting revenge on Strout. In a way, I feel like Matt did get the justice he wanted and then in a way I feel like he didn’t. Matt wanted to kill Strout so badly but then hesitated many times to do it because he didn’t know if it was truly the best way to handle the situation. He ended up killing strout and did everything he could to make sure he covered up evidence. He came home to Ruth and told her everything. He doesn’t feel like he actually did what he had just done. This makes me think that he really

In “Hamlet”, Hamlet loses both his father and his mother due to being murdered by a man named Claudius, who also happened to be Hamlet’s uncle. As you could imagine, he now is feeling angry and ready for revenge. Hamlet’s idea of revenge is what is called “an eye for an eye” in other words, he wants revenge. He feels as if the best way to go about the situation is killing claudius for what he did. He has no shame in doing so. However, in the story “Killings”, Matt loses his son, Frank, to murder by a man named Richard Strout. Matt happens to view justice as more of a type of protection. He sees justice as a way of protecting his family. He felt that as a father and a husband, he needed to do whatever he could to make sure Richard Strout paid for what he did. Matt wants to kill Strout for murdering his son but feels a sort of hesitance before doing so. This is because he doesn’t want to deal with the guilt of killing someone and isn’t completely sure this is the right way to go about the situation. In the end, he does end up killing him and after doing that, he does, in fact, feel shamed for what he had done. In this way, the two characters differentiate.

There does happen to be some comparisons between Hamlet and Matt. Both of these characters happen to come off as emotional people. They have this depressing, sad, and emotional vibe to them. They both lost