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They both have there father killed and they pursue an act of revenge to honour their fathers death. They have same responses when they hear the news.

Both have a change in conscience.

After the death of their fathers, both Hamlet and Laertes are at first rash in their anger, directing their anger at Claudius.

Both want to keep Ophelia safe.

- Hamlet's 3rd soliloquy: starts off very low and insecure then he finds the confidence he needs to be a man of action.

- Act II, scene ii: 606-610, 616-619

Hamlet: Thinker and Man of Action

Hamlet's Final Transformation

  • Believes in fate

"There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow."

  • A man of action

"Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,

Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?

Follow my mother."

Act 5 Scene 2

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7. claudius' "double" death

- Hamlet embodies being a man of his thoughts by finally avenging his father's death and killing Claudius... twice.

- Act V, scene ii: 68-74, 336, 339-341.

6. rosencrantz & guildenstern

5. revenge vs.religion

- Hamlet incorporates being a thinker and a man of action into one when getting rid of his "friends" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

- Act IV, scene vi: 27

- Hamlet is presented with the perfect opportunity to avenge his father, really allowing him to become a man of action, but his strong religious background sways him out of it.

- Act III, scene iii: 76-82

Comparison with Laertes and Fortinbras.

Development of Character

  • Hamlet convinces everyone

that he truly is crazy.

  • Becomes a true threat to the king

"How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!"

Act 4 Scene 3

4. the play within the play

Differences between Hamlet and Laertes.

Laertes

Hamlet

1. Meeting the Ghost

Man of action: Hamlet starts to procrastinates and over thinks while laretes is eager to take action right away on regarding the revenge of the death of each of their fathers.

Forgiving: He forgives Hamlet for his fathers death.

Eager/impulsive:Chooses to act first on killing his father's murderer and apologize later.

Not religious as Hamlet: He does not care if he goes to hell or not, he just want to get his revenge..

Thinker: Hamlet takes two months just to act insane and just over think everything. He procrastinate on actually killing Claudius.

Non-Forgiving: Hamlets was not able to forgive those that were corrupted by Claudius.

Religious: Hamlet had the opporunity to kill Claudius but didn't take the chance because Claudius was praying.

Hesitant: He waits to go through with his plans and just over thinks the situation.

3. Two month development

- ghost tells Hamlet what he already thinks about who could've killed his father, it confirms his previous suspicions.

- gives him addition information.

- this meeting between the two puts Hamlet into gear.

- Act I, scene iv: 44-45, 47, 64-75

Comparison to Laertes

- Hamlet spends 2 months developing a "fake" madness

- asking marcellus and horatio to swear

- breaking into Ophelia's room

- Act I, scene iv; Act II, scene i: 97-110

Similarities

Laertes is forgiving in contrast to Hamlet. After Claudius is killed, Laertes than accepts Hamlet's apology for killing his father whereas as Hamlet throughout the play is not forgiving of those that were corrupted by Claudius. Laertes begins to feel bad and that he has been corrupted by Claudius.

Difference between Hamlet and Fortinbras

Act 5, Scene 2 Line 343-345

" He is justly served,

It is a poison tempered by himself.

Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet,

Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,

Nor thine on me.

Man of action: Takes action to start a war with Denmark in the beginning of the play.

Ambition and firm (determination): He knows what he wants and will do anything to get it.

Willing to take risks: He is ready to sacrifice himself and the soldiers with him.

Fortinbras is firm and warrior like in contrast Hamlet is a man of thought and philosophy.

Laertes does not care what happens to him and if he has sinned by killing the man who killed his father. This is shown when Laertes says he will even kill the man who killed his father in a church if it comes down to it. He is very impulsive and just want to avenge his fathers death. All that matter to him is to accomplish he revenge and suffer the consequences later.

"To cut his throat in the church."

Hamlet and Laertes are similar in the way they associate with their families.

Both were not trusted and therefore spied on.

Both are protective of their family.

Act 4, Scene 7 Line 141

HAMLET

Hamlet: Upon learning from his father's ghost that his assumption were right and that his father has been murdered. Hamlet first words are:

" Haste me to know't,

that i, with wings as shift,

As meditation or the thoughts of love,

May sweep to my revenge."

Act one, scene 5 Lines 33-35

Therefore, he is saying that he is going to take revenge for his fathers death.

Hamlet compares himself to Fortinbras for his lack of action on his plan.

Act 4, Scene 4 - Hamlet soliloquy

2. The master plan

Likewise, upon learning of his father's death, he bursts in upon Claudius and Gertrude demanding to know how his father has dead. Therefore, he was demanding to know who killed his father

" Let come what comes:

only I'll be revenged,

Most thoroughly for my father"

Act 4, scene 5 Lines 145-146

LARETES

Therefore, both Hamlet and Laertes has similar responses to knowing that their father has been murdered and they wanted revenge on whoever killed their father.

Initial Character

Similarities with Hamlet and Fortinbras

- Hamlet tells Horatio and Marcellus that he has a plan to act crazy.

- Hamlet is strategic & smart

- Act I, scene iv: 189-190

Hamlet and Foritnbras are both princes.

They both have their fathers killed and pursue an act of revenge.

Hamlet and Fortinbras are both nephews to their country's kings and are deflected from their plans by being sent to another country.

Both want the throne. (To be king of denmark.)

  • Suicidal

"How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!"

Act 1 Scene 2

  • An over thinker

"I am pigeon-livered and lack of gall"

Act 2 Scene 2

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