Differences Between Hamlets Mental/Emotional Conflicts...

Differences between Hamlets mental/emotional conflicts and Beowulfs physical battles Beowulf is an epic poem from an unknown author. The main point and theme of Beowulf is about heroism of a warrior with courage who becomes an epic hero; not only by his strength in the battles but also by his social obligations. In Williams Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Hamlet’s mental and emotional conflict is based on a tragedy of revenge. It is the differences of Beowulf and Hamlet, that also make it the same. The epic poem Beowulf tells the story of a Geatland warrior; from young to old, in Anglo-Saxon times. Beowulf travels overseas to the ruler of the Danes, King Hrothgar, to sacrifice his own life to help this land fight off a demon named†¦show more content†¦Has Beowulf failed his people? Like Hamlet in the last act of the play, who avenges for his father’s death, Beowulf knows what he must do as king and what has been appointed to him and takes actions of his culture as a heroic warrior. In William Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, the play is a Renaissance tragedy in Denmark about revenge and cultural identity for Hamlet by the duty of his father and the duties to his society. Hamlet’s father was murdered and Hamlet has been visited by his father’s ghost. The ghost tells Hamlet that he must kill his killer and that his killer is Hamlet’s Uncle Claudius but that he must not kill his mother. Claudius has married Hamlet’s mother only a month after killing her husband, Old King Hamlet. Prince Hamlet is furious with his mother, Gertrude. Hamlet becomes obsessed with afterlife, suicide and what happens to bodies when they die. Given evidence by the ghost that his Uncle killed his father, he also is obsessed at proving Claudius’ guilt. After a month of Old King Hamlet’s death, Claudius and Gertrude marry and Hamlet is furious and begins to take out his anger on the woman he loves, Ophelia. The madness is so much to Hamlet he contemplates his own death and suicide. Hamlet has a group of traveling actors act out in a play; a scene resembling his father’s death that can prove his uncle’s guilt and if the ghost is real and