What is my purpose? In the plays Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, this is the question the main question the protagonist 's struggle to answer. The question the Hamlet asks is “To be, or not to be” (57 Shakespeare), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ask, “would you rather be alive or dead?” (Stoppard); these are the same question asked in different ways because the characters struggle to find a purpose in life. In the end Hamlet’s purpose is to avenge his father 's death, which he does; and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s purpose is to serve the king and then die on the ship. Which means their purpose is to follow the script of Hamlet.
The two plays Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are the same stories told from two different perspectives. Hamlet, which was created by Shakespeare, is about a son having to deal with the burden of avenging his father’s death, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are just minor characters in the play. On the other hand Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, written by Tom Stoppard, is Hamlet from the perspective of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; this is a little weird because the characters only can exist when they are talked about in Hamlet.
Even though the two plays ask the same question, the characters that ask these questions are in very different circumstances. Hamlet is struggling with the task his of killing his uncle because his uncle poisoned his father, the fact that his mother maybe a part of his father 's