Do you think Hamlet and Laertes are a like, or different? In the play Hamlet written by William.
Shakespeare Hamlet and Laertes show some signs that they are a like and some show there.
different, taking revenge, having feelings for people and the thoughts and actions of people. .
These two characters are very alike with only a few differences which in their lifestyle and.
attitude.
Hamlet is the kind of person who likes to think things through thoroughly before he acts.
and does stuff. Hamlet does that after the play The Murder of Gonzago when Claudius leaves.
in an up roar, Claudius goes to pray for forgiveness and Hamlet has the chance to kill him but.
he thinks about it and decides it would not be a good idea. He does not kill Claudius because.
he is asking for forgiveness for his sins and if Hamlet was to kill him, Claudius would go to.
heaven and Hamlet wants him to rot in hell.
"Hamlet: No might I do it pat, now he is praying;.
And now I"ll do't: and so he goes to heaven:.
And so am I revenged. That would be scann"d:.
A villain kills my father; and, for that,.
I, his sole son, do this same villain send.
To heaven.
O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
He took my father grossly, full of bread,.
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;.
And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?".
(Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, iii, 74-83).
Laertes on the other hand is the exact opposite of Hamlet, he does not think before he does.
things. Laertes acts out of anger and jumps to conclusions.
"Gentleman: Save yourself, my lord:.
The ocean, overpeering of his list,.
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste.
Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,.
O"erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;.
And, as the world were now but to begin,.
Antiquity forgot, custom not known,.
The ratifiers and props of every word,.
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