Similarities Between Hamlet And The Great Gatsby

During history there have been literary works that had characters that were remarkably similar to each other. Two characters that stood out was Jay Gatsby, from The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald and Hamlet from The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare because they were both being driven to a separate kind of person than who they usually which is being more insane than the usual human would be. Some reason for their peculiar outbursts of who they really are is a particular girl that was in their life that changed who they are as a person, their ranking in society, society itself, and the amount of money that they had compared to others in their stories and who they knew .
One similarity between Hamlet and Gatsby was
What wilt thou do for her?(Shakespeare)

Another similarity between Hamlet and Gatsby was they were both driven insane. An example of this was ““Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”(Shakespeare). This was Hamlet saying how he was going insane and due to all that was happening around him that caused him to be impacted and lose his sanity. Gatsby was also impacted by the girl that he loved that made him turn into a deranged man as well.
The last similarity between Hamlet and Gatsby was they are both very specific men that are chosen to be the “main events”. An example that could come from this is “To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” (Shakespeare). Both these characters were the ones that are the main characters and they were the designated chosen ones out of all the other males in the world that are also humans.
Apart from having similarities, these characters both have contrasting details to happen. One way they are different from each other is where the live. The prince of Denmark, also known as Hamlet lived in Denmark.(Shakespeare). Gatsby lived on Long Island in New
One effect was the way they were killed, the males faced a grave ending when they were left to go six feet underground. In “Hamlet” this was said by Hamlet:
Oh, I’m dying, Horatio! This strong poison’s overpowering me. I will not live to hear the news from England. But I bet Fortinbras will win the election to the Danish crown. He’s got my vote as I die. So tell him that, given the recent events here—oh, the rest is silence. Oh, oh, oh, oh. (he dies)(Shakespeare)
This was Hamlet saying that he was facing death by the acts of poison while Gatsby was killed by a deranged man who went behind him and then shot himself as well to end his sorrow. Another difference between both of these two were the amounts of people that they killed by being deranged. The difference in deaths as three to zero, which is the ratio for Hamlet to Gatsby. Hamlet says “What’s this, a rat? I’ll bet a buck he’s a dead rat now. (he stabs his sword through the tapestry and kills Polonius)”(Shakespeare). This is him ending the life of Polonius, one of the three victims that was ended and killed. Meanwhile Gatsby doesn’t have any lines where he has killed someone during the story unlike Hamlet. The last way that they had a different impact was the amount of people that still remembered or would have memories of them. Gatsby barely had anybody that cared, while Hamlet had many. Hamlet