Both Shakespeare and Toni Morrison portray characters that are seeking to resolve inner issues through obtaining something unrealistic. Pecola searches for acceptance in society by “obtaining” blue eyes representing her belief in the power of beauty. Whereas Hamlet seeks restitution for the death of his father. Both characters are influenced in an unrealistic way that causes actions and thoughts affect their role in the book/play. Hamlet is pushed by the ghost figure of his father to kill his Uncle Claudius and by doing this he will receive peace through his actions; “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched, Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,[...] Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. No reckoning
