Compare And Contrast Hamlet Play And Movie

A man once said “I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.” In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Ophelia and Queen Gertrude are treated cruelly by Hamlet. Hamlet is cruel towards his mother and ex girlfriend because of his mother's affair with his uncle and Ophelia's obedience to her controlling father. Ophelias father, Polonius, is always spying on his children. Polonius sends a man named Reynaldo to France where he is to spy and spread rumors about his son, Laertes. He is also very controlling with Ophelia because he tells her not to speak with Hamlet and he also tells her to return all the gifts Hamlet has given to her.

Oberon is yet another example of how young love of men isn’t reliable or consistent. He drugged his own wife, the only reason being that he wanted something his wife had. Demetrius can’t stay with a maiden for a long time; he keeps finding that his love for a woman can disappear as quickly as it came. In this scene Demetrius has woken up from his sleep after Puck applied the love potion to his eyes. The first person he laid his eyes on was Helena, and instantly fell in love with her.

In the novel, the content of the letter are never revealed, but it made her upset. Her family influenced Daisy to marry Tom. In the movie, the letter is explained; Jay Gatsby told Daisy to wait for him and that he was still in love with her. Daisy wanted to call off the wedding, and

Hamlet struggles dealing with his mother because he feels very strange being around her, doesn't get full attention from his mother, and treats her poorly. After Hamlet was very upset towards his mother, he stabs Polonius hiding while behind the tapestry and Ophelia gets mad. Ophelia dies after her father’s death by drowning in the river. When Hamlet and Horatio discuss death, Hamlet admits that he switched the letters. Then, Claudius manipulates Hamlet into a duel with Laertes whose sword is poisoned.

She’s jail bait all set on the trigger”’(51). He then warns Lennie about being around her. George will not allow Lennie to spend time with her, because he is afraid that it would cause a quarrel. Later on in the novel, Crooks, Lennie, and Candy are talking when suddenly Curley’s wife appeared. Then men stop talking, and Crooks says to her, ‘“You gotta

Old Hamlet is the king of Denmark, his brother Claudius was jealous . He wanted to be the king and he wanted Gertrude which is Old Hamlet’s wife. The king went into Garden to rest and Claudius poured poison in his ear. Everyone thought he died from a snake bite or bee sting. They had his funeral, Claudius was not crying and had a strange look on his face something didn’t seem right between between Hamlet’s mother and uncle.

Mr. Capulet also refuses his Lady’s wishes for him not to fight because he felt like he was too good not to fight. Romeo and Juliet were scared to tell anyone about their marriage because of this feud. It’s also the reason that Juliet had to fake her death when it came to marrying Paris. Mr. Capulet is the the reason why Romeo and Juliet died because he was too proud of his family and he kept the feud going

Unfortunately, other may say different that silence has nothing to do with the husband torturing himself just to be able to please his wife and put up with her disrespectful behavior. For example, “she says another thing about him, and then another, and right after the third one I locked myself in the bathroom, because I couldn’t rage about this anymore” (154). It shows that in his mind fear, pride and the thought of feeling rejection from his wife cause him to live in torment. From the point of view of the author, Butler, he called the story a “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot”. Jealousy is always feeling suspicion, or fear of being displaced by a rival.

This is because he was quarantined in his house because they suspected he had the plague. Because of this Balthasar got to Romeo first which made Romeo believe that Juliet was dead. Because of this misinformation Romeo buys the poison which he used to commit suicide. Finally, in act 5 scene 3 when Juliet asks Friar Laurence where Romeo is he says, “A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.

By marrying them he destined Romeo and Juliet to be forsaken by trouble from their families’ feud. The Friar is also the man who devised the plan for Juliet to take a sleeping potion. This in turn makes everyone including Romeo think she has passed on. In act 4 scene 1 the Friar states “take though this vial being in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off” (4.1., 94-95). This is Friar Lawrence telling Juliet the plan that will eventually lead to death of the lovers.

Multiple sources also confirmed that Romeo was in hysterics by the time he arrived at the tomb. In suspense, Balthazar reveals that he has a letter that Romeo gave to him for his father, Lord Montague. The letter shows that Romeo had bought poison from the Mantua Apothecary. Friar Lawrence said that Juliet’s sleeping potion would have worn off right as Romeo drank the poison, which is why Juliet would be dead too. After this horrible instance, the fighting between Capulet and Montague ended.

"3 As the sword fight intensifies, Hamlet is wounded at the hand of Laertes ' poisoned sword. Hamlet uses the same sword to wound Laertes. As both are wounded by the same wepaon, Laertes confesses it is poisoned and neither of them will live more than thirty minutes. In a justifiable fit of rage, Hamlet thrusts the sword into Claudius, and forces him to drink from the poisoned wine so that Hamlet may be sure of his uncle 's death. Laertes dies trying to make amends with Hamlet, and shortly after, Hamlet 's life is