Misogyny
'Let four captains bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royal'.
At the end of Hamlet,Fortinbras claims that had Hamlet been alive to rule as King of Denmark, he would have been a good king. Oedipus is King of Thebes in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannas, and Hamlet is (for most of the play heir to the Danish throne in Hamlet. With reference to their royal positions in Thebes and Denmark, compare and contrast the characters of Hamlet and Oedipus.
Oedipus and Hamlet are both of royal descent, one a king and the other a heir to the throne. When comparing Hamlet the heir to the danish throne and Oedipus the King of Thebes, we contrast traits that provides insight for those that are royal or the many differences that they would have had.
On one hand Oedipus is strongly known for his characteristic traits of anger, being hubris, determined and ignorant while on the other Hamlets characteristic traits are known as being rather overdramatic, very emotional, brave and bad with a violent temper. After analyzing the traits of Oedipus and Hamlet, you see the contrast between them with their rash and tempered anger. Hamlets bad and violent temper is expressed by the meeting of Hamlet and Ophelia goes wrong and Hamlet says " ...You jig, you amble, and you lisp; you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't! it hath made me mad. 7" as he is mad and upset he insults Ophelia stating that she acts as if her own willfulness is ignorance and names stuff according to a fancy of her own. Such anger is also displayed by Oedipus when he is seen by Teiresias that has seen the prophecy that Oedipus was the killer he seeked for the former king of Thebes, in anger Oedipus responds with "you-you cripple! Your ears are deaf, you eyes are blind, your mind-your mind is crippled!' with rational anger in this scene you can see the contrast between Oedipus and Hamlet in terms of
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royal'.
At the end of Hamlet,Fortinbras claims that had Hamlet been alive to rule as King of Denmark, he would have been a good king. Oedipus is King of Thebes in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannas, and Hamlet is (for most of the play heir to the Danish throne in Hamlet. With reference to their royal positions in Thebes and Denmark, compare and contrast the characters of Hamlet and Oedipus.
Oedipus and Hamlet are both of royal descent, one a king and the other a heir to the throne. When comparing Hamlet the heir to the danish throne and Oedipus the King of Thebes, we contrast traits that provides insight for those that are royal or the many differences that they would have had.
On one hand Oedipus is strongly known for his characteristic traits of anger, being hubris, determined and ignorant while on the other Hamlets characteristic traits are known as being rather overdramatic, very emotional, brave and bad with a violent temper. After analyzing the traits of Oedipus and Hamlet, you see the contrast between them with their rash and tempered anger. Hamlets bad and violent temper is expressed by the meeting of Hamlet and Ophelia goes wrong and Hamlet says " ...You jig, you amble, and you lisp; you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't! it hath made me mad. 7" as he is mad and upset he insults Ophelia stating that she acts as if her own willfulness is ignorance and names stuff according to a fancy of her own. Such anger is also displayed by Oedipus when he is seen by Teiresias that has seen the prophecy that Oedipus was the killer he seeked for the former king of Thebes, in anger Oedipus responds with "you-you cripple! Your ears are deaf, you eyes are blind, your mind-your mind is crippled!' with rational anger in this scene you can see the contrast between Oedipus and Hamlet in terms of