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Contrast Between Hamlet, Laertes And FortinbrasHamlet (prince of Denmark) can be greatly compared to Laertes (son of a noble), and Fortinbras (prince of Norway) in the play. They all are very similar merely yet different at the same time. They all had love and respect for their fathers and felt the need to avenge their deaths, which all were brutally killed. All three believed that the murderers had dishonoured their fathers as well as themselves. They all reacted and took different approaches in attempt to restore honour in their families. Hamlet seems to be the one who lets things dwell in his perspicacity before taking any action or making an attempt at trying to get on with his life. After the death of his father he becomes depressed and gradually becomes enraged with his mothers immediate marriage to his uncle Claudius. He was lead to believe his father died of natural cause but he became aware of the murderer when his fathers ghost appeared to him. When Hamlet learns the tru th of his fathers murder, he cries, but promises action, though he delivers none. He says bang me to knowt, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge. (Act 1, Sc. 5, 29-31). At the end of the scene he says The time is issue of joint O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right (Act 1, Sc. 5, 188-189). This shows that he is no longer in such a flush to avenge his fathers death by killing his uncle Claudius. The appearance of...