Hamlet_And_McBeth,_A_Comparative_Essay

Hamlet And McBeth, A Comparative Essay William Shakespeare, the playwright of both Hamlet and MacBeth, conveys a theme of deceit, revenge and death throughout both plays. Deceit plays a major role in the activities that result in the death of numerous innocent victims as well as the two main characters that are victimized themselves by a series of murders and plots against them that are a direct result of revenge. The guilt and remorse Hamlet and MacBeth fell as a result of these events eventually leads to their own destruction. In the beginning of the play Hamlet, the main character’s father has been killed. His father’s ghost appears to him and tells him that is was his uncle, Claudius, who poisoned him. At this point, he cannot trust any one, not even his own family. It goes even further with the fact that Claudius will be marring his mother, Gertrude. “He cannot be sure whether he can even trust his own mother in the struggle for power that takes place later in the play” (Watt 160). Killing for revenge is a theme exhibited throughout this play. “As events continue, the reader comes to realize that by the macbeth, revenge, death, hamlet, play, killing, deceit, result, out, father, even, own, fact, claudius, characters, because, plays, ophelia, one, mother, macduff, leads, laertes, lady, king, goes, children, both, against, way, trust, theme, sense, reason, polonius