Brutus And Hamlet Research Paper

William Shakespeare is known as the conspirator of the tragic hero. Shakespeare is considered the father of tragedy and comedy in literary works. In Shakespeare's tragedies Julius Caesar and Hamlet, he provides two contrasting frameworks of tragic heroes. Using Brutus’s and Hamlet’s interaction with other characters, their thirst for vengeance, and ideas of death to create two contrasting but similar tragic heros of two different time periods. When comparing and contrasting Brutus and Hamlet it is important to note their interactions with other character within the play. Both Hamlet and Brutus have significant female influences throughout each of their stories. Hamlet and Brutus seemingly ignore their female counterparts affections and struggles. In Hamlet his female companion is Ophelia, the daughter to Polonius and the king's right hand man. Briefly in a conversation …show more content…
This rage is partially brought on by his mother marrying his uncle and showing extreme affection towards, only shortly after his father’s death. The interactions between Hamlet and Ophelia lightly mirror those of Brutus and Portia. In Act II, Scene i, in Julius Caesar, Brutus his meeting with Cassius, the mastermind of the plot to kill Caesar, and the other conspirators in his garden when his wife Portia arrives. “Brutus is wise and, were he not in health,/ He would embrace the means to come by it.”(The Tragedy of Julius Caesar II.i.258-259) and to