Hamlet and King Lear :: essays research papers

Thereare a lot of similarities in two Shakespeare stories HAMLETand world-beater LEAR. I guess its because of the style in whichShakes peare wrote. William Shakespeare wrote thirdkinds 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 within thefamily. And in both the feud is between the children and theirparents or relatives. small town is looking for the revenge on hisuncle for killing Hamlets father and hes upset with his mothermarrying the murderer. Here Lears evil daughters provide tocompletely destroy their father. Lear c anys his daughters andasks them who acknowledges the most. Regan and Goneril lie just to imbibe Lears land and power. Cordelia honestly answers Learand for that is given away to France, because Lear has goneout of his mind. After Lear gives out almost all his land herealizes his wrongdoing and tries to restore his power. Butnow its too late, becau se 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 jot of his father and ittold Hamlet that his uncle killed him to become the king. Thisshows that the person will even commit murder to getcontrol of the country, just like we see in KING LEAR.After 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 get back at his uncle. The endings ofboth stories are very similar. Besides the fact that all themain characters in both stories die, its how they die thatsinteresting. Because Goneril wants to get Edmund, shetoxicants her sister 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 plan didnt work, she kills herself. At the end thereis a duel 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