Free Hamlet Essays: Hamlet, Fortinbras and Leartes :: GCSE Coursework Shakespeare Hamlet

  Hamlet, Fortinbras and Leartes         Hamlet, Fortinbras and Leartes are all very different pot with different lives, but as these men interact in the suffer we learn that there are many circumstances surrounding them that mysteriously connect them. All three of these characters had almost reason to avenge around circumstance in their life, but they all had a very different way of conquering the object of their hatred.FortinbrasFortinbras had levied an army to attack and conquer Denmark. though son of the late King of Norway, the crown of Norway had gone to his uncle, just as the crown of Denmark had gone to Hamlets uncle. This shows that in the world of the play it was not crotchety for brothers to late kings to be elected to the throne over the pretensions of their younger nephews. alone Fortinbras was not prepared to accept his constitutional dispossession so easily. If he had been deprived of the throne of his father, he would try to co nquer a dry land of his own in which, as he later tells Horatio, he has some rights of memory.Fortinbras is not willing to put an end to his military adventures. Desiring to win delight in through the sword, he cares not that the prize of his glory is worthless or that he will sacrifice thousands of lives and much wealth for this hollow victory. manage Hamlet, Sr., Fortinbras is an empire builder who desires only to fight for glory and so, in an teetotal way, he is fitted by character to inherit the kingdom of Hamlet, Sr.LeartesLaertes is a young man whose good instincts have been somewhat effaced by the annoying with superficial appearances which he has imbibed from his father, Polonius. Like his father, Laertes apparently preaches a morality he does not practice and fully believes in a double received of behavior for the sexes. But if his father allows him these liberties, it is that he may better nigh(a) the manner of a so - called gentleman. More touch with the outward signs of fostering than with any inner refinement of spirit, Laertes has well observed his fathers advice to be concerned with appearances since the apparel oft proclaims the man.As unconcerned for the order of society as he is for his own salvation, he would rather dare damnation than moderate his fathers honor and his own besmirched. Though the sight of his sisters madness brings him to a second of true grief, he is still primarily enraged by his fathers obscure funeral - / No trophy, sword, nor hatchment oer his bones, / No noble rite nor formal ostentation.