Comparing Hamlet And Swagger - 1585 Words

â€Å"To be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep— No more†. One of the most famous lines from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, which basically is the main character, Hamlet debating on if he should live or die, if life is even worth it. This quote relates to my book Swagger by Carl Deuker because the protagonist Jonas’s friend Levi had the same question and he took the sad way out and believed he should not live anymore. This is just one of the examples that compares Hamlet and Swagger and there are much more similarities that are seen in the two books.†¦show more content†¦When he finds this out, he should have gone to the proper authority’s but, Levi being a shy boy told him not to do it which would cause Levi’s eventual death. â€Å"‘Levi I’m your friend. What’s the point if having a friend if you can’t talk to him? It can’t be that bad.’ ‘Its worse than anything you can imagine,’ he said finally, his voice thick with anger. ‘Tell me’ I said ‘when I’m alone with Hartwell, he asks me to do things’ he said in the darkness ‘Levi are you talking about sex? Is it sex you do’ ‘its sickening. I’m sickening’ ‘No Levi you’re not we have to tell somebody.’ ‘No I told you because you are my friend and I don’t want anyone else to know. I shouldn’t have told you’ ‘no its ok well put it aside for a while, okay?’ ‘okay’.† As shown Jonas should have just went to the authorities instead of wait it out and that could have saved Levi’s life. As you can see procrastination leads to tragedy in both novel and play and it could have been pre vented as easily as just not procrastinating. Another similarity between the novel and the play is the trust being broken by people that were close to the main characters. In Hamlet, Hamlet’s trust is broken by his mother and his uncle when they get married only two months after Hamlet’s fathers passing and Hamlet feel’s betrayed by his mother. Proof of this is shown in the following lines: â€Å"Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the EverlastingShow MoreRelatedCritical Analysis Of Othello1461 Words   |  6 Pagesreputation. A more literal interpretation of a metaphor can be found in the same scene,† I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk? And speak parrot? And squabble? Swagger? Swear? And discourse fustian with one’s own shadow? O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!† The modern text translation, â€Å"I’d rather ask him to hate me than ask such a good commander to accept