Sadness are character traits that both Holden and Hamlet share. They are saddened by the death of a loved one. One death is unnatural and the other is unexpected. Allie Caulfield is Holden’s little brother who dies of leukemia. His death was unexpected at the age of 11. According to Holden, Allie was the smartest in the family, “he was the most intelligent member in the family.” (Salinger 38) When Allie dies, Holden has a bit of “survivor's guilt.” He does not understand why a young and intelligent kid, like him had to die, and why not him or someone like him. Hamlet is the prince of denmark. When we first meet Hamlet, in 1.2, he is sad about his father’s death and is overwhelmed by his mother’s hasty marriage to King Hamlet’s brother. This is Hamlet’s grief in his own words:
‘‘tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shapes of grief,That can denote me truly (Shakespeare 1.2.76).”
What Hamlet is wanting everyone to know, especially his mother, is how much he loved his father and how he is upset about …show more content…
To be isolated is to be separated and alone. Throughout the play, Hamlet becomes isolated from his family and society. Hamlet feels detached from his mother because she seems to have no sadness over the death of her husband:
“Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she-- O God, a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good.” (Shakespeare
‘‘tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shapes of grief,That can denote me truly (Shakespeare 1.2.76).”
What Hamlet is wanting everyone to know, especially his mother, is how much he loved his father and how he is upset about …show more content…
To be isolated is to be separated and alone. Throughout the play, Hamlet becomes isolated from his family and society. Hamlet feels detached from his mother because she seems to have no sadness over the death of her husband:
“Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she-- O God, a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good.” (Shakespeare