Hamlet Free Will
Love should be full of free will and passion, but the literature present are full of controlling love. In Hamlet, Hamlet Jr. loves his dead father so much at he forgets everything and kills anything that might help his dead father's ghost. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo kills Paris and himself to be with Juliet in the afterlife. Juliet does the same for him after she sees his dead body. In “Porphyria's Lover”, Porphyria dies because she is controlling her lover and then gets controlled when she's killed by her lover. In Hamlet, “Porphyria’s Lover”, and Romeo and Juliet, death cannot hold the characters from being with whom they want. Although death or killing someone is a sin, these people put that aside to achieve control in their circumstances.
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Romeo does not get the message that Juliet isn’t really dead, so he goes there to kill himself by her side to control their fate. On the way to the tomb where Juliet was resting, Shakespeare writes, “O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet. He dies” (III.iv.72-73). Romeo kills Paris to get to Juliet. He only did this because he wanted to be with “dead” Juliet and to control the love he had for her. After killing him he felt bad and put Paris in the tomb with Juliet to show respect and to honor his dying wish. By Hamlet doing this Paris was closer to the person he loved and cared about. Another case of controlled love is when the text reads, “This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die. She takes Romeo’s dagger, stabs herself, and dies” (Shakespeare V.iii.120-121). After Juliet sees that Romeo has killed himself to be with her in the afterlife she does the same and by doing so stay together forever. This quote is pretty interesting because of the metaphor used and how she compared her body to the sheath (the holder for the knife). Both Romeo and Juliet tried to control their love without killing, but their plan did not work and the next best option for them was death. Out of the three pieces of literature Romeo and Juliet is the king of controlling
Romeo does not get the message that Juliet isn’t really dead, so he goes there to kill himself by her side to control their fate. On the way to the tomb where Juliet was resting, Shakespeare writes, “O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet. He dies” (III.iv.72-73). Romeo kills Paris to get to Juliet. He only did this because he wanted to be with “dead” Juliet and to control the love he had for her. After killing him he felt bad and put Paris in the tomb with Juliet to show respect and to honor his dying wish. By Hamlet doing this Paris was closer to the person he loved and cared about. Another case of controlled love is when the text reads, “This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die. She takes Romeo’s dagger, stabs herself, and dies” (Shakespeare V.iii.120-121). After Juliet sees that Romeo has killed himself to be with her in the afterlife she does the same and by doing so stay together forever. This quote is pretty interesting because of the metaphor used and how she compared her body to the sheath (the holder for the knife). Both Romeo and Juliet tried to control their love without killing, but their plan did not work and the next best option for them was death. Out of the three pieces of literature Romeo and Juliet is the king of controlling