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
a well known salesman. While he doesn’t really care about his younger son Happy because all of his hope is on Biff. Willy has been a salesman all his life but has never really been the salesman he dreams of being a rich ,well known and well liked salesman.He puts his dream and hope on his son's back expecting him to be just that. In both of these plays the sons are stuck doing things that their fathers expect them to do without even knowing if they really want to do it. A son doesn't have to be what his father wants him to be but should pursue what he thinks will bring him satisfaction and happiness.
The sons in both of the plays are doing what their fathers tell them do without really questions them. They don’t really want to stand up to their fathers and to tell them that they don’t