Comparing Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

The spinoff play made by Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, has the readers(audience) follow along the two supporting characters from Shakespeare's classic Hamlet. Stoppard adds humor as well as implementing the philosophy of existentialism to the two friends journey, giving more develop to the characters that wouldn’t have been shown in the original play. Yet there is a less blatant theme in the play which takes some more thought to find. The play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is about the human behavior of questioning the world, seeking impossible answers, through
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It could be apparent that when comparing the two main characters they are completely different. Guildenstern is more logically minded compared to his counterpart Rosencrantz,who though does express some intelligence does not compare to Guildenstern. At the start of the play their intelligence is shown off with Rosencrantz playing a game of Heads or Tails while Guildenstern is observing the phenomena of how he keeps getting Heads. Guildenstern expresses his intelligence by saying ,“A weaker man might be moved to re-examine his faith, if in nothing else at least in the law of probability.” (Stoppard 12). Guild is expressed by Stoppard as the “superior” of the pair with Rosencrantz not seeing the bigger picture of his game. The pair play
Rosencrantz shows a form of ignorance is bliss approach to life. A study of how this occurrence is related to big issues was made in The