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 can non bolt 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 details of the plays are different, the two assassins (Brutus and Hamlet) provide interesting comparison. Through these two killers, Shakespeare reveals the different levels of justice ones personal sense of justice others perception 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 condition that may turn out to be a fatal flaw in the end. When a piece decides to play God by taking justice into his own hands, the world can unravel much more quickly than he had ever imagined. referee in Hamletis a conflict between two Bible teachings The Old Testament says, An eye for an eye, b ut the New Testament preaches, Turn the other cheek. Hamlets peers beg him to let his father rest in peace and accept his mothers remarriage, an act that would be in pact with the New Testament. Claudius, Hamlets mothers new husband, himself p... ... 36 Bradley., A. C. Shakespearean 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.