Similarities Between Hamlet And Julius Caesar

The images of ghost and specters play a tremendous role in Hamlet, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar meanwhile all being brilliantly crafted together. In early history, the existence of the supernatural was a discussion that the population was hesitant to explore. This is because the early moderns knew nearly nothing about life after death. Each play seems to have suspicious reoccurring ghosts and specters that continue to appear speaking to the characters. When these characters associate with this phenomenon they seem to lose a false sense of reality and begin to go almost insane. As these false conceptions keep occurring, the stories seem to undergo a suspicious plot. In all three plays, the characters seem to have a common visual sense of their
actions. Mostly being made to feel guilty of their course of action, the characters start to become disturbingly unstable while visualizing these contradictions to their sanity.
While following along in the play Hamlet, Prince Hamlet had received a notice that his father was supposedly seen while the guards had been out late on this night.
When the ghost suddenly appears before the mean it just as suddenly vanishes. Horatio was terrified and acknowledges that the specter does resemble the dead King of Denmark. When he had made this conclusion he declares that the ghost must bring negative warning of a future military attack. After Horatio tries to speak to the ghost, with no luck, the ghost remains silent for a second time and disappears again just as the cock crows for dawn. Horatio concludes that they tell Prince Hamlet, the dead king’s son, about the sighting. He believes that while the ghost would not talk to him, if it is really the ghost of King Hamlet, it must not refuse to speak to his beloved son left behind. When Hamlet heard of the strange news the thought of his father coming back as a ghost sounded nearly impossible, for he was dead. But that thought alone had made him extremely curious and he begins to question his father’s death. As anybody would have reacted, he demanded them to take him to see his beloved father later that night to speak with him. As promised, late that night his father’s ghost had arrived that same very spot they had first spotted him. This time, the ghost came to speak with his son, just as promised it is the ghost of dead King Hamlet. He had relayed to him the details concerning his murder. His murder happened to be committing incest with his
mother.
In the book Macbeth, after Macbeth murders Banquo, they held a feast and Banquo’s ghost subsequently appears at the feasts. The specter is completely unseen by all but Macbeth. When the floating dagger that is seen before Macbeth, on his way to kill Duncan and begins saying,”Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible/ To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, /Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” (Shakespeare 37-40). During this scene, Macbeth questions if the dagger above is a warning for him not to kill Duncan or if he is just hallucinating from all of the stress he has been put under. The ghostly bloody dagger serves to push the audience to doubt the trustworthiness of Macbeth’s perception. It also may remind people that the murder is unnatural, and that the world could be thrown into an exceptional amount of chaos if Macbeth goes through with the murder of Duncan. Secondly, soon after Macbeth mentions Banquo’s absence, the ghost appears directly after, as if the specter has been summoned. Banquo’s ghost can either be embedded in Macbeth’s mind as a reminder of his guilt, or it could possibly be the actual ghost of Banquo coming back to stress that Macbeth made the wrong choice by murdering his friend. The showing up of Banquo multiple times in the play underlines the story that murder throws the world into utter chaos and represents Macbeth’s guilt.
Lastly, in Julius Caesar, the ghost that was seen is a bad omen for Brutus. Brutus had betrayed Caesar by taking part in the conspiracy and murdering him. In other occurrences, it reflects the unnatural state of political situations in Rome. But this omen directly shows that Brutus may take a fall in the near future, and that Caesar is about to be avenged.