Similarities Between Hamlet And Laertes

Death is a terrible part of life that everyone has to go through. It is part of being a human to grieve the ones we love and want to do whatever it takes to get closure. The book Hamlet King of Denmark by William Shakespeare was written in 1599 and is a tragedy about a prince named Hamlet whose father dies at the hands of his uncle. He is tasked to kill his uncle who is now married to his mother. He is dealing with his inner demons while dealing with love and friendship. In the play, Laertes is the son of a counsellor of important standing in the kingdom, Polonius. His sister is Ophelia who is also Hamlets girlfriend. While he is away at school his father is murdered and he goes back to Denmark to kill whoever killed his father. As revenge is one of the most prominent themes in Hamlet; death is repeatedly drawn upon in the context of murder and suicide. A reoccurring event in the play is death of characters fathers with the murder of King Hamlet being the main cause of all of the conflict in the play and the cause of both of Hamlets and Laertes bloody thoughts and actions. The reaction of both Hamlet and Laertes to the

It is clear that Hamlet loved his father deeply because after the wedding he says to himself

“That it should come to this. but two months dead—nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this hyperion to a satyr. So loving to my mother… Frailty, thy name is woman! — a little month, or ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father’s body” (Shakespear.1.2.138-142)

Clearly, Hamlet thinks his father was a great king as stated and is sad about what is going on in the kingdom because he feels that his father is not being honored enough as his mother remarried so quickly. To say that his grief is wrong is in itself wrong because he is grieving his father, someone he saw as