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This 6 page paper compares and contrasts the two plays Hamlet and Macbeth. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Hamlet and Macbeth: Justifiable Homicide and Cold Blooded Murder Research
Compiled by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction Hamlet and Macbeth are two of Shakespeares "Big
Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of acts, the willful destruction of one human by another. And
in both plays, the killings are done by the protagonist. Yet there is a profound difference between the two and that difference helps to illustrate the differences between the plays
as a whole. Discussion The two plays have both similarities and differences. Among the things they have in common are the supernatural; royalty; and war, though war is incidental to
both cases. In the supernatural vein we have the witches in Macbeth and the Ghost in Hamlet; but the reactions to these apparitions are very different, and mark one of
the differences between the plays. When Macbeth hears the witches prophesies, he writes to his wife and by the time he arrives home, and with her sinister urging, he is
ready to put his plan into action. But Hamlet, despite hearing directly from his father-rather than an intermediary like a witch-that he (King Hamlet) was murdered, the younger Hamlet delays
for a full five acts before he moves against Claudius. In Macbeth, however, action is swift, followed by madness and remorse. "In no other play does Shakespeare show a
nation so cruelly occupied by the powers of darkness; and Macbeth is, for all its brevity, his most intensive study of evil at work in the individual and in the
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