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Macbeth And Hamlet Character Analysis

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Great writers create great stories. In “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and “Hamlet” William Shakespeare creates characters that want to protect a loved one's virtue and character that have no virtue at all. In “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Lady Macbeth does not show virtue and it all ends with her death. In “Hamlet” Laertes cared for his sister Ophelia and tried to protect her virtue until she drowned. Also, Hamlet wanted to protect his mothers virtues, because she married his uncle, until she was accidentally poisoned. Shakespeare uses characterization and symbolism in “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and “Hamlet” to describe how people sometimes do not have virtue and men want to protect it.
Shakespeare uses characterization to describe how Hamlet wants to protect his mothers virtue. In “Hamlet” Hamlet’s father has been murdered and his mother is queen. Gertrude later becomes married to her dead husband's brother, Claudius. Hamlet has a conversation with his mother and says, “Mother you have my father much offended” (iii, 9). Hamlet does not like his mother's new marriage especially because she married his uncle. Hamlet wants his mother to have virtue he does not want her to lose it. Hamlet says she is his mother and tells her “you are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife” (iii, 14-15). This characterizes Gertrude because she remarried two months after her husband’s death not caring if it harmed or bothered anybody else. Hamlet’s main goal is to protect his mother and her virtue even

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