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The aspect of loneliness in`hamlet` by Shakespeare and ` The Caretaker` by Harold Pinter.

p Loneliness Analyzed in Shakespeare 's Hamlet and Pinter 's The Caretaker

Hamlet is a medieval drama , and has a plot similar to the plots of the modern dramas today . The basis of my Hamlet is from the movie Hamlet ' starring Mel Gibson , so that a comparison of the dramas on how they 're shown in films will be analyzed . The plot in Hamlet is complex , and a lot of issues were there to create more dilemmas to the main character . First , a summary of Hamlet and later , another drama called The Caretaker

, will be discussed in to give a good idea of what my analyses are . Prince Hamlet 's father , the King , dies . Queen Gertrude , Hamlet 's mother , married his Uncle Claudius two months after his father died . This made Hamlet very upset . Hamlet was too upset that he lost his mind a little bit . Polonius has a daughter , Ophelia who is intended to marry Hamlet , though in reality , Ophelia doesn 't want to marry him . Then Horatio revealed to Hamlet that his father 's apparition was constantly seen and this led Hamlet hear the truth of his father 's death . His father died because Claudius poisoned him Claudius was told to be so full of lust for the Queen too . This enraged Hamlet more , knowing his father got murdered . When he learned that Ophelia is being forced to marry him , he rejected her . Hamlet accidentally killed Polonius , and this made Ophelia lost her mind Hamlet 's fury made him lose respect for his mother . There was a very disturbing part of the film that Hamlet made a gesture of lovemaking to his own mother . This is a suggestion of incestuous relationship . The quest for Hamlet to make his uncle pay for his treachery , ended up in more loss and death . Claudius ended up accidentally poisoning Queen Gertrude , and a sword with venom poisoned Hamlet . Before Hamlet died he was able to kill Claudius by stabbing his heart and making him drink the poisoned cup of wine (Hamlet

The Caretaker is a contemporary drama during the 1960 's , and has a very simple plot . First , a summary of the drama will be discussed in to understand the situation better and , hence , I 'll give my analyses of it . The main characters here are : Mick , the owner of the house Aston his brother and Davies , the tramp . Davies , otherwise known as Jenkins is a vagabond in this story . He was hired for a job at a restaurant but one week later , he was fired . Davies felt that he was not treated the way he should be . He felt that he was being discriminated for a lot of reasons . He was a very sensitive person . He thought everybody disrespected him . His sensitivity made him grumpy enough not to do the job required of him . What will the manager say ? Of course Davies will be terminated for his stubbornness . Davies and the manager got into a heated argument that Davies almost...

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