King Lear And Hamlet Comparison Essay

More contradictions between "Hamlet" and "King Lear", whereas "King Lear" has consistently honest or moral characters, "Hamlet" appears to have conflicting and compromised characters. Whereas "King Lear" is a clear and happy moral story, "Hamlet" appears to be vague and disturbing. Whereas "King Lear" has Christian morals and values, "Hamlet" has modernist and enlightened philosophies. In other way, they are complementary, as "King Lear" is clear and compelling, the characters consistently develop, the motives are clear, and the morals are Christian, while "Hamlet" is intentionally the opposite. Edgar hints that he is not crazy, Cordelia’s death looks like a suicide, and Kent assumes disguise to parallel Hamlet and Ophelia’s insanity. In addition, Lear and Gloucester share blindness to the good characters, who help and preserve them throughout the story, while in "Hamlet" we share blindness with the characters to the true and full story. …show more content…
Both of them banished their loyal children and made their wicked children their heirs. It is appropriate that the play brings them together near Dover in Act IV to commiserate about how their blindness to the truth about their children has cost them dearly. Love is a common theme between both plays as in "King Lear", love is represented by Cordelia to her father and Edgar to his father too. In "Hamlet", Hamlet's love to Ophelia and his mother is figured out besides his love to his father that makes him seek revenge from his father's murderer throughout the play. Hamlet speaks about his love to Ophelia saying:
"I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my