William Shakespeare, George Orwell, and Joseph Conrad compare and contrast different ideas to help bring together his or her thoughts. Light versus dark, Denmark and Norway, Memory and the Past, are examples how an author may compare and contrast situations that may be important to the meaning and understanding of their novels. Besides those meanings, corruption is also a very important theme within these novels too. It shows and explains that a certain act can happen in real life. The three novels; Heart of Darkness (HOD), Hamlet, and 1984, all portray this idea. Although the theme, corruption, makes these novels comparable to each other, there are things like; setting, character, and point of view which contrasts the books as well.
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Despite different plots, there are similar themes shared between both works. (i.e. the madness that both stories are surrounded in). Both worlds are places where evil abounds. The greed and lust for power is what drove Claudius, in Hamlet, to murder his own brother, which is what tainted the Danish court in corruption. In Heart of Darkness, the madness is from the desire for the valuable ivory. The natures and causes of the evil present in both Hamlet and Heart of Darkness are very similar.
The comparison between, The Party (1984) and Claudius (Hamlet) show it is not worth to sacrifice others to achieve goals. If people can control themselves, the tragedies can be avoided.
Another comparison within all three novels is that, women play a small role. In Hamlet, there are only two women in the novel who have no opinions and are portrayed as mindless human beings who rely on men. In Heart of Darkness, the women have minor roles, are only counterparts to the men of the story and are objects in which men can display their own success and status. And lastly, in 1984, the women are portrayed as weak and useless, as well as tools for reproduction, to release sexual desire of the
Despite different plots, there are similar themes shared between both works. (i.e. the madness that both stories are surrounded in). Both worlds are places where evil abounds. The greed and lust for power is what drove Claudius, in Hamlet, to murder his own brother, which is what tainted the Danish court in corruption. In Heart of Darkness, the madness is from the desire for the valuable ivory. The natures and causes of the evil present in both Hamlet and Heart of Darkness are very similar.
The comparison between, The Party (1984) and Claudius (Hamlet) show it is not worth to sacrifice others to achieve goals. If people can control themselves, the tragedies can be avoided.
Another comparison within all three novels is that, women play a small role. In Hamlet, there are only two women in the novel who have no opinions and are portrayed as mindless human beings who rely on men. In Heart of Darkness, the women have minor roles, are only counterparts to the men of the story and are objects in which men can display their own success and status. And lastly, in 1984, the women are portrayed as weak and useless, as well as tools for reproduction, to release sexual desire of the