The Importance Of Laertes In Shakespeare's Hamlet

In Hamlet written by William Shakespeare the character Laertes, is the son of Polonius, his father, and is also the older brother of his sister, sweet, Ophelia. He is a college student who is studying in France at the moment and is known to be one of the best fencers around. He cares a lot about his father and sister greatly, so when Laertes finds out that they have killed his father and that his sister has killed herself, while he is away at college, we see a different character, an aggressive one and he rages throughout the palace to find out who has done this outrageous act and horrible crime.

As we proceed throughout the acts, we soon find out the significance of Laertes and his importance in the scenes he appears in. For example, when Laertes comes out in act one scene three, he tells her to write to him as long as boats are sailing and for her not to sleep but write to him as often as possible. This shows that Laertes cares about Ophelia very much dearly, and that he would love to talk to her as much as possible and see how she is doing every now and then. He then gets excited that he will get a second chance to say bye to his father and get a second blessing from him …show more content…
They both were told the news by somebody, they were actually not there at the moment because they were both off at college. They both reacted the same but however one was more verbal and the other being Laertes more hands on when it came to taking revenge on the persons who killed both their fathers. For example, when Hamlet found out about his father's death he tried to do some investigation on who it could have been, he tried to take the truth out of people, as for Laertes, he did the same but he immediately started to plan his revenge on the murderer. Laertes got to his revenge much quicker than Hamlet