In Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman the two characters, Hamlet and Biff, in their respective plays, find themselves lost in the confusion of their own personal and external struggles; both having to fulfill a duty to their fathers while having to deal with their own personal demons. By watching the two struggle with their situations, the two plays are illuminated by the journey of the two tortured souls attempting to find their true selves emphasizing an over looming theme of identity in both plays as well as the creation of real and relatable characters.
Hamlet is introduced as a very contemplative and complex character. He thinks deeply and questions the motivations of everyone and so upon receiving his task to seek revenge on his father, he questions the validity of the ghost of his father as well as his message to Hamlet and this is seen in the quote in one of his soliloquy’s where he mentions the ghost saying, “And he is very potent with such spirits, / Abuses me to damn me,” (Shakespeare 2.2.589-90). He believes the ghost to be the devil and is not going to trust him so easily but at the same time, he has an obligation to his father to avenge his death especially because it was not an accident. This struggle of what to think or …show more content…
Hamlet struggles with the message the ghost of his late father brings to him and moral implications of what the revenge plan is and Biff struggles with the expectations of his father’s dream for him and the search for his purpose in life and future. With each of their own conflicts, these experiences would eventually lead them to find who they are as people adding affect to the two plays helping build the theme of identity but also help with the creation of complex and three-dimensional
Hamlet is introduced as a very contemplative and complex character. He thinks deeply and questions the motivations of everyone and so upon receiving his task to seek revenge on his father, he questions the validity of the ghost of his father as well as his message to Hamlet and this is seen in the quote in one of his soliloquy’s where he mentions the ghost saying, “And he is very potent with such spirits, / Abuses me to damn me,” (Shakespeare 2.2.589-90). He believes the ghost to be the devil and is not going to trust him so easily but at the same time, he has an obligation to his father to avenge his death especially because it was not an accident. This struggle of what to think or …show more content…
Hamlet struggles with the message the ghost of his late father brings to him and moral implications of what the revenge plan is and Biff struggles with the expectations of his father’s dream for him and the search for his purpose in life and future. With each of their own conflicts, these experiences would eventually lead them to find who they are as people adding affect to the two plays helping build the theme of identity but also help with the creation of complex and three-dimensional