Similarities Between Hamlet And Splendor In The Grass

Hamlet and Splendor In The Grass as Tragic Love Stories What often happens in a tragic love story? Not every story has a happy ending, some stories end in death or sadness. This is what happens in the book Hamlet and the movie Splendor In The Grass. Hamlet tells about the affection between Hamlet and Ophelia. The play is a tragedy, because both lovers die in the end of the story. The movie, Splendor In The Grass, also ends tragically. Because of the traditional views in the conservative society at that time, the characters must face many obstacles. Therefore, because the two couples in both works do not have a perfect outcome, and both involve death in some way, both works tell a tragic love story between the main characters in which lead to an unhappy ending.
In the play of Hamlet, Ophelia, hamlet’s lover, looses her mind because Hamlet killed her father and she couldn’t believe someone she loved would kill someone else she loved. When Ophelia accidently drowns, Hamlet feels that he has lost the only love of his life. In the movie, Splendor In The Grass, Deanie follows her mom’s will by resisting having sex with her boyfriend, Bud. Then Bud takes his father’s suggestion, and finds another kind of girl to satisfy him and leaves the small town in which they live, to go to Yale University. So when Deanie finds out that bud is not going to date her anymore, she goes crazy. In both works, the father stands in the way of his son or daughter’s