Comparison Of Antigone, Hamlet And The King's Horseman

The three plays Antigone, Hamlet, and Death and the King’s Horseman are all based in three entirely different settings, cultures and timeframes. Each author has chosen to emphasize the intrigue and exchange within each setting or small culture as well as the social consciousness of the time within each social group related the choices, emotions, and decisions related to death and chances related to the honor of the family as well as the social consciousness to family kinship. The human agency as noted and the decisions an individual decides to take one life because it demanded because of social upbringing or because your leader/mentor life is dead. One must take measure take your own life and then to guide another spirit’s into the next
There are rumors of i) father’s ghost wanderings in the night, ii) Hamlet acting strangely with his “girlfriend/fiancé” and iii) all at a time when Denmark is in need of Political stability because there are military rumblings in Denmark. Hamlet’s “girlfriend/fiancé” father Polonius then dies suddenly. She is convinced it is Hamlet’s fault and responsibility because they have just spoken. Then Ophelia, Hamlet’s “girlfriend/finance” drowns and it seems to be unclear as to why, how, or perhaps it is because of her madness [is it Hamlet?]. Distraught by the whole rotten family situation the son Laertes of Polonius is given sword whose tip is dipped in poison and wine which is has poison in it for Hamlet. On the way to meet Laertes Hamlet castes one of famous scenes which many know. He goes past gravesite with Horatio, a close friend from college and discovers the skull of jester from Hamlet’s childhood jesterYorick. Ophelia funeral procession shows up. A brawl begins. There is only one thing better than a fight at a wedding… Laertes challenges or convinces Hamlet into a duel and to defend one’s honor and to fight if not to death than to some gross deforming near death experience. However, as luck would have it Hamlet during the duel did not
The magic and rhyme of the play give it a different feel and draws one into the feeling what the author demands. Elesin is known because of his sexual prowess, the King’s head horseman. Elesin’s demand from African society in Nigeria is to accompany his king in the afterlife and with his death before sunrise. He is granted anything because of the circumstances Lastly, though unexpected because his training in England Elesin’s son Olunde feeling of deep society and family obligation to take his life for his family and perhaps to protect the reputation of his father inability to take his life by sunset. The human agency of the play is driven by Elesin and Olunde which is demanded in the Society of King’s group and obviously accepted by the local society as accepted when Elesin decides to take bride to be