Hamlet : Contrast between Hamlet,Laertes,Fortinbras

Hamlet : Contrast between Hamlet,Laertes,Fortinbras By: Grant Vorenberg He was great man and prince, with great potential and virtue. Another person whose virtue parallels that of Hamlet was Laertes, the son one of the Courtiers in Claudious’s court. Both of these men also share the trait of impulsiveness, achieving spontaneous reactions when angered. In Laertes this revealed in his return to Ellisenore after his father’s death. He returns with fire in his …

…revenge so much so, the ghost has to return to spur him on.” This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose”. In the tragic end, Hamlet falls, the man with so much potential and greatness, a man of thought and action falls from grace with the “wholesale” slaughter in great hall of castle Ellisenore proving his theory that all born of dust is corruptible ”. O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt!”.