A Comparison of the Character of Brutus in Julius Caesar and Hamlet in

The Characters of Brutus and Hamlet in Hamlet and Julius Caesar Written one year apart from the other, one cannot go against to recognize the parallels between William Shakespeares tragedies Julius Caesar and Hamlet. To begin, they are both stories of assassinations gone horribly wrong. Although the elaborate of the plays are antithetic, the two assassins (Brutus and Hamlet) provide interesting comparison. Through these two killers, Shakespeare reveals the different levels of cleanice ones personal sense of justice others cognition of justice the justice of the monarchy that supports Shakespeares craft. Through this, the audience realizes that a just person is not always a humble one, a restrict that may turn out to be a fatal disfigurement in the end. When a man decides to play God by winning justice into his own hands, the world can unravel much more than quickly than he had ever imagined. Justice in Hamletis a conflict between two Bible teachings The Old Testament sa ys, An shopping center for an eye, but the late Testament preaches, Turn the other cheek. Hamlets peers beg him to let his father rest in peace and give his mothers remarriage, an act that would be in accordance with the new-sprung(prenominal) Testament. Claudius, Hamlets mothers new husband, himself p... ... 36 Bradley., A. C. Shakespearian Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. New York Penguin Books, 1991. Durband, Alan. Shakespeare Made Easy Julius Caesar. Barrons educational Series, Inc. New York. 1985. Mack, Maynard. The World of Hamlet. Yale Review. vol. 41 (1952) p. 502-23. Rpt. in Shakespeare Modern Essays in Criticism. Rev. ed. Ed. Leonard F. Dean. New York Oxford University P., 1967. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Suzanne L. Wofford. Boston St. Martins Press, 1994. Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. Ed. Alan Durband. London Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd., 1984.