Posted by RJones2125 at s77-106.resnet.ucla.edu on December 11, 2003 at 13:54:04:
In Reply to: there's an askew reference in second paragraph- NT posted by andy the flea on December 11, 2003 at 11:55:26:
where?
: : Both playwrights introduce their title characters in the midst of their dealing with personal problems (both of which also happen to be governmental problems). Hamlet has just watched his mother marry his uncle so soon after his father’s death that “the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables,” and he senses foul play. His suspicions are confirmed, when the ghost of his father tells him that “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.” Hamlet becomes obsessed with trying to get the king and his wife to admit to the crime for which he knows they are guilty, rather than vengefully dispatching his father’s dispatchers. Finally, at the end of the play, when he is near death himself, he takes action against the king.