- Choose one character from Hamlet and one person (real or fictional) from our society.
- Explain HOW the modern person parallels the Hamlet character; make sure you support your arguments with specific evidence from the play and from the modern person.
- What is the significance of this connection? What can we learn when we look at these two characters together?
DO NOT repeat ideas or evidence presented by your classmates. DO NOT repeat yourself; build on your ideas.
DO make sure you proofread your work. DO make sure you generate at least two full paragraphs of developed analysis.
All responses are due by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 24th.
Hamlet can relate to Simba in The Lion King. I think the two movies are loosely, but in some way related. In The Lion King, Simba finds out that his father was killed by his uncle Scar and as Simba grows up he continuously sees images of his father. Through those images his father inspires him to achieve greatness, and not allow his uncle to take the crown. This movie greatly relates to Hamlet but in a different sense. In Hamlet, his father’s ghost wants him to avenge his death and kill is uncle whereas in The Lion King his father’s ghost doesn’t encourage Simba to murder his uncle in retaliation. In The Lion King, Simba falls in love with Nyla and she becomes his sanity, while in Hamlet he pretends to be in love with Ophelia then uses it as a scheme in his favor.
ReplyDeleteWhen you look at the two characters together you see that both characters love their fathers and are extremely upset about how much of a dishonorable death both father’s faced. You can also tell that both characters are doing what they believe is best for their father and themselves.
In a movie I like called Law Abiding citizen, the main character, Clive Owens, is forced to watch two men rape and kill his wife and daughter. When the case is taken to court the man who did not perform the rape OR the murder receives a death sentence and the other man is given a lighter sentence because he pleads guilty as a witness. Clive then takes revenge upon both men and anyone who is related to the case that helped the guilty party. Hamlet and Clive are very similar in the sense that they both want to exact revenge on individual(s) because of the death of a family member(s). Though Clive goes about his revenge in a more violent and broad-based way, killing all related to the crime, and Hamlet only wishes to kill Claudius, both characters and stories share much in common. Another similarity between the two is their acting components. Hamlet fakes madness to cover his tracks. Clive is sent to prison for his first murder and then uses his skills as an ex-CIA agent to set up his later murders without him even having to be present at the location. So in both cases the subjects are using some way to cover up their motives and movements.
ReplyDeleteThe movie Taken is relative to Hamlet because the main character (the father) in the movie is trying to take revenge on the people who kidnapped his daughter when she goes overseas as a vacation with her friend. The father goes out on a rampage and kills almost anyone who gets in the way or is related to his daughter being taken. In Hamlet, he is told by his father’s ghost that his brother killed him. So he is trying to avenge his father’s death by killing Claudius.
ReplyDeleteThough in Taken, Neeson (the father) is trying to get her daughter and Hamlet his is getting revenge for his father. They are different in taking revenge but both deal with family members and doing everything they can to get revenge on the people who took someone from them.
A character called Madea is more like Hamlet then any other person I know. She is always trying to seek revenge. Even if nothing was done to her she needs to do something to get even. She thinks that you keed to do before its done to you. Madea had many accounts and records with the cops. However Hamlet doesnt he usually just sits back and tries to convince people that he's crazy so he can get the revenge of killing the kimg. Hamlets idea is alot better than anyones but he hasn't thought it all thw way through and thought about the after affects
ReplyDeleteThe main character from the movie "death race", frank, is very much like hamlet. They both lost a loved one. Frank's wife was murdered and so was hamlets father. They are both trying to seek revenge for the loss of there loved ones. I learned that loss isnt always something that we can control and when something does happen, revenge isnt always whats best, even though both hamlet and frank are both out for revenge...
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