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    novel The Great Gatsby‚ love is shown between many different characters in different ways. The reader experiences love at its best and worst. We see relationships flourish‚ rekindle and end between the different characters. The most controversial relationship is the relationship between Daisy and Tom. Through infidelity‚ and mistrust‚ tragedy occurs. Other characters become associated with their marital problems‚ showing different kinds of love and relationships. In the play Hamlet‚ the reader also

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    Gatsby and Hamlet

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    Examining Hamlet and The Great Gatsby 1/9/13 According to Roger Lewis‚ “The acquisition of money and love are both part of the same dream‚ the will to return to the quintessential unity that exists only at birth and at death” (41). In both William Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the protagonists are willing to sacrifice all that they have in order to achieve their unrealistic objectives and ambitions‚ resulting in their tragic demises. While there

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    Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby’s longing for Daisy Buchanan leads him to his own downfall. Similarly in the novel Hamlet‚ Hamlet’s extreme love for his father and his hatred towards his mother play a major role in his tragedy. In these works‚ there are a number of motivating factors that contribute to the downfall of the main characters- obsession‚ hatred‚ and the wanting to be accepted – but ultimately it is love that leads to the demise of Gatsby and Hamlet. Hamlet loved his father‚ King Hamlet‚ and

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    discrepancies between appearances vs. reality. It appears that everyone is full of deception and ulterior motives. Tom‚ Daisy and Gatsby all appear innocent and happy from an outsider’s perspective but when given a closer look the imperfections shine bright…. Hamlet is based aroundcharacters that play their roles behind the veil of duplicity. Everything appears to be true and accurate‚ but in reality it’s vice-versa. Three of the main characters that hid behind the mask are Hamlet‚ King Claudius‚ and Polonius

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    Hamlet vs Gladiator

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    Comparison Essay: Hamlet vs. Gladiator William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a tragic play where Prince Hamlet of Denmark wants to seek revenge for his father’s death that was murdered by his uncle and now his stepfather‚ as the murderer married his mother and King Hamlets’ wife named Claudius. Gladiator is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott where a loyal Roman general named Maximus Decimus Meridius is betrayed when the Emperor Marcus Aurellus’s son‚ Commodus murdered his father and

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    Hamlet vs. Laertes

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    Hamlet vs. Laertes Hamlet and Laertes are two people with almost all the same aspects in the Shakespeare’s Hamlet. They both want to avenge the death of their father’s and they both love Ophelia. Hamlet’s and Laerte’s similarities can be described in many ways but one can talk about the main ones: being the love they have for Ophelia‚ the death of their father’s and how they associate with their families. Hamlet and Laertes share a different but deep love and concern for Ophelia. Before his

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    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

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    Hamlet vs. Oedipus

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    Hamlet vs Oedipus Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles are both tragic stories which contain many elements of which are similar and different. Although both Hamlet and Oedipus suffer from fate‚ Hamlet’s father is murdered by his brother Claudius‚ while Oedipus kills his own father. Both Hamlet and Oedipus have the opportunity to shun their fate‚ but the two men believe themselves to be the only individual who can resolve the predicament which they are faced with. The

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    Hamlet vs Othello

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    How the protagonists deal with their difficulties: Hamlet vs Othello In William Shakespeare Hamlet and Othello‚ the author creates two similar yet vastly different protagonists. The major source of contrast lies within each characters approach to decision making and premeditated action. As David Nichol Smith puts it‚ Hamlet “is not a character marked by strength of will or even passion‚ but by refinement of thought and sentiment.”(Smith 288) This very refinement of thought is what characterizes

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    Agamemnon vs Hamlet

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    I think that Hamlet was more tragic in comparison to Agamemnon. The reason being is because in Hamlet Claudius is driven to kill his own brother‚ King Hamlet‚ just so he can marry his own sister-in-law. Hamlet is plotting to kill his own uncle and is speaks of his own mother in a hateful manner e:g Within a month‚ Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes‚ She married. O most wicked speed‚ to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! A son

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