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Comparing Hamlet And Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman
There are parents who decide what their kids future is going to be. Some parents tend to tell their kids what they want them to be when they grow up . These parents put expectations for their kids way too early in life forcing them to become what their parents want them to be. This is unfair to sons/daughters because they might be stuck becoming something they don't like or simply aren’t good at. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet a son named Hamlet is trying to avenge his father's death who was killed by his own brother who marries his wife. The father of Hamlet is old Hamlet who comes back as a ghost demanding his son to kill his uncle but to leave his mother alone.In Miller’s The Death of a Salesman the father Willy wants his oldest son Biff to become

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