Hamlet and Heart of Darkness

With all the writings out in the hu homophilekind many themes overlap. The play small town by William Shakespeare is a tragic tail of betrayal, revenge and redemption. In the novel Heart of lousiness by Joseph Conrad the main lawsuit Marlow journeys through the Congo River where faces tragedy, ending and the decent into darkness. Both of these pieces of belles-lettres share the themes of illusion versus humanity, self identity operator and madness. Sometimes persons first model or thoughts might not always relate to reality. In critical point, Claudius is seen as a good-natured blackguardfather Hamlet exclusively in reality he killed senior Hamlet to claim the tidy sum for himself. In the inverted comma O scoundrel, villain, smiling damned villain! My tables. Meet it is I readiness down. That 1 may smile, and smile, and be a villain (Shakespeare 70). This quote shows how Claudius is seen as a skilful and honest man but in reality he is a serpent who betrayed h is brother. in addition in Heart of Darkness, Marlow sees a man named Mr. Kurtz as idolizes him and is fascinated by the influence that man must have, (Conrad 22). In reality when he meets Mr. Kurtz he sees that the man he worship was nothing but a crazed lunatic that was pampered and fumble, (Conrad 40) by the darkness of the jungle. It seems as if al of the Congo is disparate from what Marlow first expected. The whole art route was littered with unhealthy bodies and constant attacks by natives. regular when Marlow reached the trading station he expected to find a fortress with great wooden walls but quite he found stakes with the heads of natives attach on top. In two novels the theme of appearance versus reality is seen throughout both pieces of literature and is usually experienced by the main character expecting one thing but instead the reality being a lot different.\nFinding oneself- identity is a key step to the characters development throughout the story. Hamlet h ad a change in his identity when his father�...