Hamlet Still Relevant In Today's Society

In the Shakespeare play Hamlet, young Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, was murdered by Claudius, the king’s brother. The king’s ghost speaks to young Hamlet about his death and that he wants revenge. Soon after the king’s death, Hamlet’s mother Gertrude marries Claudius. Hamlet is very upset with his mother because he feels that she did not mourn his father enough. Hamlet begins to act as if he has gone insane, even to his love, Ophelia, and edits a play to see how his uncle reacts. Hamlet adds a scene in a play that is being performed for the king and queen. The scene displays how the ghost told Hamlet of his death. To Hamlet’s advantage, Claudius reacts guilty and storms out. After this, many people die. Polonius, Ophelia’s father, is stabbed to death by Hamlet who thinks it is Claudius spying on his and his mother’s conversation. Ophelia supposedly drowns herself after going insane because of the death of her father. Hamlet’s

Voldemort ensured he would have eternal life as long as parts of his soul into various objects of his. Voldemort the snuffed out witches and wizard who were not pure. This is how he rose to power, like how Claudius rose to power by killing his brother. Voldemort also had a servant that did a lot of his dirty work, similar to Polonius and Hamlet’s friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Wormtail, the servant, spied on Harry Potter like how Polonius spied on Hamlet and got stabbed to death. Wormtail was not murdered by Harry, though. When he came back into power, Voldemort had put some of his followers into the magical government system, similar to how Claudius watched Hamlet closely and had many people watching him while he acted like a