The Comparison of Villains in Shakespeare's Richard Ⅲ and Hamlet
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare two villains, Richard and Claudius, in the works of Shakespeare, Richard Ⅲ and Hamlet. For this purpose, two writers focused their interests on the human nature such as good and evil, and discussed the common points and differences of the characters. Richard Ⅲ is one of Shakespeare's political historic plays. The protagonist, Richard makes decision that he will completely be an evil man from the first to the end. In the process of depriving crown, he never wavered from his purpose. On the other hand, Claudius in Hamlet has his brother, late king and Hamlet's father killed and also tries to kill Hamlet. Nevertheless, in an effort to repent his sin, he pres to God several times. This is a small but nevertheless important change compared to Richard. These behaviors, however, are his disguised and disturbed appearances. After the veil was uncovered in the end of the plot, he revealed his hypocritical entity. From this view of the characteristic comparisons, this is an attempt to explore the nature of human's good and evil. Throughout Richard's behaviors, we could see that his consistent bad things draw a conclusion that his attitude of mind can make good-hearted person on his own. This leads to the concept of ‘emptiness’ that good and evil essentially are one. In other words, all ambiguous entities whatsoever in the world are empty of unstructured existence and it is the point of view of Shakespeare.
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare two villains, Richard and Claudius, in the works of Shakespeare, Richard Ⅲ and Hamlet. For this purpose, two writers focused their interests on the human nature such as good and evil, and discussed the common points and differences of the characters. Richard Ⅲ is one of Shakespeare's political historic plays. The protagonist, Richard makes decision that he will completely be an evil man from the first to the end. In the process of depriving crown, he never wavered from his purpose. On the other hand, Claudius in Hamlet has his brother, late king and Hamlet's father killed and also tries to kill Hamlet. Nevertheless, in an effort to repent his sin, he pres to God several times. This is a small but nevertheless important change compared to Richard. These behaviors, however, are his disguised and disturbed appearances. After the veil was uncovered in the end of the plot, he revealed his hypocritical entity. From this view of the characteristic comparisons, this is an attempt to explore the nature of human's good and evil. Throughout Richard's behaviors, we could see that his consistent bad things draw a conclusion that his attitude of mind can make good-hearted person on his own. This leads to the concept of ‘emptiness’ that good and evil essentially are one. In other words, all ambiguous entities whatsoever in the world are empty of unstructured existence and it is the point of view of Shakespeare.
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