Hamlet and King Lear :: essays research papers

Thereare a lot of similarities in dickens Shakespeare stories HAMLETand KING LEAR. I guess its because of the style in whichShakes peare wrote. William Shakespeare wrote ternionkinds of stories comedy, tragedy and history. Both of thesebooks are tragedies and they are very similar tragedies. Inboth of these stories there is a feud going on at heart thefamily. And in both the feud is among the children and theirparents or relatives. village is tone for the revenge on hisuncle for killing Hamlets father and hes upset with his mothermarrying the murderer. hither Lears evil daughters try tocompletely destroy their father. Lear calls his daughters andasks them who loves the most. Regan and Goneril lie clean to put down Lears land and power. Cordelia honestly answers Learand for that is given away to France, because Lear has goneout of his mind. by and by Lear gives out almost all his land herealizes his wrongdoing and tries to animate his power. Butnow its too late, because his daughters already took away allthe land. He sees how evil his daughters really are and theydont love him at all, so he curses them. Now Lear appearsto be crazy from his actions, but in reality he exactly knowswhat is going on. Hamlet saw the ghost of his father and ittold Hamlet that his uncle killed him to become the king. Thisshows that the person will even commit murder to letcontrol of the country, just like we see in KING LEAR. by and by the ghost appeared to Hamlet, he started to act like hewas crazy. But just like Lear, in reality he wasnt crazy, hewas thinking of how to beat up back at his uncle. The endings ofboth stories are very similar. Besides the feature that all themain characters in both stories die, its how they die thatsinteresting. Because Goneril wants to get Edmund, shepoisons her child Regan. Hamlets uncle wants to poisonHamlet, but by mistake he poisoned his wife, Hamletsmother. Hamlet by mistake kills his uncle servant Polonius.Because of the death of her father Ophelia (Poloniusdaughter) goes insane and later kills herself. BecauseGonerils course of study didnt work, she kills herself. At the end thereis a affaire dhonneur between Edgar and Edmund, where Edgar kills hisbastard brother. At the end of HAMLET there is a duelbetween Hamlet and Polonius son, where Hamlet wins but in