Similarities Between Hamlet And Antigone
William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is very similar to Sophocles’ “Antigone” but they have key differences.
The Parados in Antigone is entirely revolved around the dominance of man and contains many metaphors. He writes “...and his blunt yoke has broken The sultry shoulders of a mountain bull” (Parados 11-12). It’s saying that a bull is a tough animal but a man is tougher. Act II of Hamlet says that a man is very angelic in what he does. It reads “In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel” (Hamlet 2-3). Shakespeare describes man as graceful and elegant. In “Antigone”, man is described as powerful and strong but Hamlet says that he is wise and angelic.
The purpose of the Parados is to portray man as a god, who
The Parados in Antigone is entirely revolved around the dominance of man and contains many metaphors. He writes “...and his blunt yoke has broken The sultry shoulders of a mountain bull” (Parados 11-12). It’s saying that a bull is a tough animal but a man is tougher. Act II of Hamlet says that a man is very angelic in what he does. It reads “In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel” (Hamlet 2-3). Shakespeare describes man as graceful and elegant. In “Antigone”, man is described as powerful and strong but Hamlet says that he is wise and angelic.
The purpose of the Parados is to portray man as a god, who