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In both plays we see a lost soul and a mourning protagonist agonizing over the loss of their fathers demise. Both protagonist Catherine and Hamlet are on the verge of madness and every moment they see their father it seems they creep closer to insanity. But both characters see their father differently. In Hamlet case his father first shows himself to guards as a ghost or a spirit, not communicating, but just haunting them. It is until the guards show Hamlet his father’s ghost that the former king will speak and say onto Hamlet “I am thy father’s spirit; Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night” (Shakespeare 1325). The former king is not only speaking to Hamlet to exchange simple greetings, but rather to discuss his murderer, …show more content…
In this quote we understand that Catherine was imagining her father talking to her, showing us that she may become unstable just like her father was. And with each moment we see with Catherine and her father, Robert, we see similarities they may share of madness or of brilliance, creating a story about a daughter possibly following her father’s footsteps. In each play the fact is both protagonist cannot escape the greif of their father’s death.
As the story continues for both plays there are people known as the antagonist that challenges and questions Hamlet and Catherine. Even though both characters have antagonist, the antagonist is very much different on how they oppose the main character. Starting with Hamlet; his very own mother acts as an antagonist, as we look through the play Gertrude opposes Hamlet by marrying Claudius only after 2 months of the death of Hamlet father. This is where Hamlet had felt betrayed by his mother; Hamlet became confused to why she would be with Claudius. Once the former king spirits says to Hamlet “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown” (Shakespeare 1325), he not only became furious with Claudius, but with the person who lays with him, Gertrude. The main person to oppose Hamlet is Claudius, the person …show more content…
In the play Proof we are left with Catherine starting to read the proof to Hal to discover if she truly wrote the proof and what can be improved on it. Reminding us that due to her relationship with her father, she was possibly able to write an incredible proof. Stating that we can all learn something or improve on something from having a relationship with our parents. In the play Hamlet we are not really left with a cliché happy ending, we see the majority of the royal family died and others due to revenge. What can be gathered is that we should not allow revenge to consume us and not make things any more complicated than it should be. So what we ultimately learn is that we can still learn from having a relationship with our parents and revenge doesn’t always have a satisfying
In both plays we see a lost soul and a mourning protagonist agonizing over the loss of their fathers demise. Both protagonist Catherine and Hamlet are on the verge of madness and every moment they see their father it seems they creep closer to insanity. But both characters see their father differently. In Hamlet case his father first shows himself to guards as a ghost or a spirit, not communicating, but just haunting them. It is until the guards show Hamlet his father’s ghost that the former king will speak and say onto Hamlet “I am thy father’s spirit; Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night” (Shakespeare 1325). The former king is not only speaking to Hamlet to exchange simple greetings, but rather to discuss his murderer, …show more content…
In this quote we understand that Catherine was imagining her father talking to her, showing us that she may become unstable just like her father was. And with each moment we see with Catherine and her father, Robert, we see similarities they may share of madness or of brilliance, creating a story about a daughter possibly following her father’s footsteps. In each play the fact is both protagonist cannot escape the greif of their father’s death.
As the story continues for both plays there are people known as the antagonist that challenges and questions Hamlet and Catherine. Even though both characters have antagonist, the antagonist is very much different on how they oppose the main character. Starting with Hamlet; his very own mother acts as an antagonist, as we look through the play Gertrude opposes Hamlet by marrying Claudius only after 2 months of the death of Hamlet father. This is where Hamlet had felt betrayed by his mother; Hamlet became confused to why she would be with Claudius. Once the former king spirits says to Hamlet “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown” (Shakespeare 1325), he not only became furious with Claudius, but with the person who lays with him, Gertrude. The main person to oppose Hamlet is Claudius, the person …show more content…
In the play Proof we are left with Catherine starting to read the proof to Hal to discover if she truly wrote the proof and what can be improved on it. Reminding us that due to her relationship with her father, she was possibly able to write an incredible proof. Stating that we can all learn something or improve on something from having a relationship with our parents. In the play Hamlet we are not really left with a cliché happy ending, we see the majority of the royal family died and others due to revenge. What can be gathered is that we should not allow revenge to consume us and not make things any more complicated than it should be. So what we ultimately learn is that we can still learn from having a relationship with our parents and revenge doesn’t always have a satisfying