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Hamlet and Macbeth, two dying heroes

In all the plays of Williams Shakespeare there is a hero, a main character who changes major things in the country, because they are close related to the royal house, which makes them noble. But did you recognize that these well meant deeds, almost always leads to the death. In this essay I will compare this strange characteristic of the Shakespeare plays Hamlet and Macbeth.

First Hamlet. The father of King Hamlet (which is the main character), Old King Hamlet is been murdered by Hamlet's uncle, Claudius (the successor of Old King Hamlet). And to make it worse, Claudius married Gertruide, which was the wife of Old King Hamlet, only two months after the funeral of Old King Hamlet. Only Hamlet knows Claudius murdered his father because of his father's ghost, and he wants to get his revenge, but he is not real sure about it. At the end he decides to just kill Claudius, but at that time Claudius already knows of the plans of Hamlet, and he......

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