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

  Hamlet, Fortinbras and Leartes         Hamlet, Fortinbras and Leartes are all rattling unalike people with different lives, but as these men interact in the play we learn that there are many circumstances surround them that mysteriously connect them. All three of these characters had some reason to visit some circumstance in their life, but they all had a very different way of hold ining 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, sightly as the crown of Denmark had gone to Hamlets uncle. This shows that in the world of the play it was non unusual for brothers to late kings to be elected to the throne over the pretensions of their jr. nephews. But 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 conquer a king dom 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 kick upstairs honor through the sword, he cares not that the prize of his glory is meritless or that he will sacrifice thousands of lives and much wealth for this grind victory. Like Hamlet, senior, Fortinbras is an empire builder who desires only to fight for glory and so, in an ironic way, he is fitted by character to inherit the kingdom of Hamlet, Sr.LeartesLaertes is a young man whose good instincts have been somewhat obscured by the concern with superficial appearances which he has imbibed from his father, Polonius. Like his father, Laertes apparently preaches a worship he does not practice and fully believes in a picture standard of behavior for the sexes. But if his father allows him these liberties, it is that he may break in approximate the manner of a so - called gentleman. More concerned with the outward s igns of gentility 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 troupe as he is for his own salvation, he would rather dare eternal damnation than leave his fathers honor and his own besmirched. Though the sight of his sisters madness brings him to a moment 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 schematic ostentation.