Comparing Shakespeare's Hamlet And Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare was born April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. Shakespeare’s mother's name was Mary Arden. She came from a very wealthy family. Shakespeare went to Stratford Grammar School where he got all his formal education. At age seven, Shakespeare studied classics in Greek and Latin. “From 1594-1608 Shakespeare worked for the London Theatre World”. “Some plays he wrote were Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard the Third, and Romeo and Juliet”. “These plays were all tragedies.” (Meghan and Angela, William Shakespeare) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s most enduring plays. Shakespeare had great influence on culture throughout the world. “Not only did he have the guts to step up to the senators of the Roman Empire and
Some may also say the characters between the two plays are also similar. Since the two plays came out so close in year (Julius Caesar 1599, and Hamlet 1602) is probably why they’re so tied into each other. For example Brutus and Hamlet. Brutus is a very complex character. Brutus faces many difficult conflicts by trying to stay loyal to his friend Julius Caesar, as well as stay loyal to his country. “Brutus kills Caesar, dealing the decisive blow during the historically based account of senators murdering the Roman leader”. “Caesar was a father figure to Brutus in the play, and in real life.” (Stocker, “Brutus and Hamlet”). Hamlet on the other hand he is loyal to his dead father with appears to him in a ghost form, and also wants to keep his parents legacy. “Hamlet kills the tyrant Claudius, who unlike Caesar is only a tyrant in the sense that he may have come to his position unjustly, not that he has created a new power in the state which undermines previous limitations on the powers of one man.” (Stocker, “Brutus and Hamlet”). Both Brutus and Hamlet are one in the same both trying to stay loyal to something or someone but also faces conflicts along the way. They both killed someone who was a father figure in their