What Is The Relationship Between Hamlet And Power

The characters in the play Hamlet and the characters in the book Purple Hibiscus all use their individual appeared personalities as shields, and to give them power over the situations that they have been placed in. The children, Hamlet and Kambili, both use their feigned personalities to protect themselves from the outside, while the adults, Claudius and Eugene, are more offensive about their power, using it to gain more control. Their control can be yielded only by the highest power that they can imagine: religion and the gods that they worship so highly. Despite wanting to stay in command, they can only do so by disobeying the Gods that they believe have all the power.
Throughout Hamlet, the title character explains his plot to kill his
He acts as though she is a stranger to him, and becomes enraged when she suggests a relationship with him, shouting at her: “Get thee to a nunnery. Why, wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent and honest, but yet I
To those in the church and villagers who are less fortunate than he, Eugene is a kind and generous man of God. Only those close to him can see how abusive he is. But no matter who talks about him, he is seen in a position of higher power. Each persona Eugene adopts is just another way to gain power. His family members are the unfortunate victims of both sides of him coming together, making the anger against him feel unjustified and wrong. He manipulates his family into believing that he is the victim in any situation, and manages to place the blame on them. When confronting Kambili about coming in second place for grades, he makes himself the victim, asking her “Why do you think I work so hard to give you and Jaja the best? You have to do something with these privileges. Because God has given you so much, he expects much from you. He expects perfection. I didn’t have a father who sent me to the best schools” (Pg 47). Eugene is almost equating himself to God when he speaks about what God expects, as if he had the exact idea of what God wants. He places blame on Kambili for something she most likely could not control, something that she would not have allowed to happen had she had the chance. Because of this manipulative speech he gives Kambili, she continues to worry about how she can get her grades up enough to come first even after she is beaten to the brink of death. Another instance of him placing