Manipulative Characters : Hamlet Vs. Grendel And King Claudius

Also Grendel would not be able to be a good person if he tried because he’s done so much bad and he hates men. In the poem it stated “some evil inside myself pushed out into the trees. I knew what I knew, the mindless, mechanical bruteness of things, and when the harper's lure drew my mind away to hopeful dreams, the dark of what was and always was reached out and snatched at my feet”(Gardener 54). This shows that Grendel has a complex relationship with the evil inside of him. Which makes him bitter, he doesn’t like men and he tried to destroy the things they work hard for. Grendel has seen the dragon, and he has an idea of how his life will end. This connects to the bible story about Cain and Abel. The biblical allusion about this story was Cain was evil and he killed his own brother because of jealously. This connect to the story Grendel because him and his mother are hopelessly evil to God and a “virtuous” human society. Grendel is seen as a descendant of Cain because he kills humans out of anger and jealousy. Also in the text Grendel states “and so begins the twelfth year of my idiotic war. The pain of it! The stupidity!” (Gardener 5). This quote somewhat shows the good in Grendel because he doesn’t like the fact that he is a bad person and a social outcast of everyone else but he feels as if killing and hurting humans will ease his pain. Seeing the good and evil in Grendel it is easy to realize he can’t help the fact that he is a monster and can’t help but to hate humans because he doesn't belong and they live a better life than him. Though in a way Grendel's actions can be understandable because depression and angry can cause someone to do things they don’t normally do. With Grendel feeling this way his entire life it really affected him and caused him to do things out of spite. All in all

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Grendel was a character that was widely misunderstood in the book Grendel by John Gardner he was portrayed in the book as a gruesome beast when in reality all he had wished his entire life was to fit in. Throughout this story Grendel feels he has no friends in the outside world and no one to accept him besides his own mother. He doesn’t want to accept his role in society of being the Great Destroyer described to him by the dragon. Man creates a huge problem in Grendel’s life and has had a major effect on the way he lives with man. Grendel in his heart never truly wanted to be destructive; it was the rejection of mankind that changed his view on his life.

Grendel is not evil for many reasons. We are given many examples, in the story, that point out that the way he acts is as a result of his experiences with human beings. For example, he gets fought by people leaving a church because they know that he is a descendant of Cain. He was even more distraught from this because these people had just come out of a prayer service about treating others with respect, and they then came out of the church and decided that they shouldn’t treat Grendel with respect, so they beat him up. This made him see human beings as a corrupt people. He was also almost killed by Hrothgar and his men when he was sitting in a tree, which also didn’t help him attain a positive outlook on humanity. There were also many things that he witnessed that contributed to his personality, such as when one king offered Hrothgar his sister, who was the one of

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, manipulation has been used by various characters to psychologically control and affect others in order to achieve specific personal agendas.

In acts two and three of Hamlet, characters use deception to discover the truth; however, they suffer personal consequences due to their deceit. Hamlet deceives most of Denmark by creating a fake craze to uncover the truth and to confirm the ghost’s information about his father's murder. He tells Horatio and Marcellus about his false madness; having them swear to never tell anyone no matter “how strange or odd soe’er I bear myself”(Shakespeare 1.5.171). Using the antic-disposition, Hamlet draws attention away from his suspicious activity while he gathers information on Claudius who he suspects is the murderer. By doing so, it is his way of commencing his revenge against his Uncle, hoping that it will make Claudius guilty enough to reveal himself

Of course everyone has choices and realistically Grendel made some pretty stupid decisions. You’d be fully justified in believing that him to be the villain, truly, perhaps it’s simply the author 's fault for falling into the ‘every great hero needs a monster to fight’ trap, mayhaps it be the circumstance of his birth. However the blame for his descent into violence and killing humans should also be blamed on the humans themselves who make no effort to attempt to understand or communicate with him. Maybe it was just the time period the story was set, in but the humans are depicted as violent and ignorant, worshiping false gods and practicing pointless religions, according to Grendel, but can you truly say something similar would not happen in this day and age? Grendel would be hunted down, lauded as a monster, a murder, and an abomination. Taken in by scientists to be dissected and studied. In both times given his monstrous appearance, Grendel would be unable to live his life to the fullest and his angst in the story reflects that though he desires knowledge being unable to communicate with the humans and his mother leaves him alone and emotionally stunted. He does not have an outlet so to speak to pour out his conflicting emotions too and this lets him bottle it up inside and he lacks the understanding to know what he is feeling and how he should react.

Almost notably, the perception of madness and spying plays the most influential role in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. However, when looking closely at the play, it can be argued that the central theme of this tragedy is acting. How Shakespeare presents and lays out the actors and acting makes it a framework for madness and spying. Shakespeare points out the theme of in the dissimilarities of his characters, the deceits that individuals take for granted and the presentation of the `play within a play '. This intertwined deception allows certain characters to manipulate the actions and thoughts of others such as Hamlet does. This tragedy is one great puppet show, "I could see the puppets dallying". (Act III, scene II).

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In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, King Claudius is widely understood to simultaneously be both well-spoken and extremely intelligent, two characteristics that, added up, complement his dangerous and manipulative motives and nature. However, it is his truly his loud conscience that contributes to the complexity of Claudius as a villain. Though he seemed to have pragmatically planned and executed his goal to take the throne from King Hamlet, he still encountered certain events that even strategic preparation could not predict, such as the appearance of the ghost of his King Hamlet that ultimately made Prince Hamlet seek revenge on Claudius’ wicked ways.

    In the drama Hamlet Shakespeare has concocted a multi-dimensional character in the person of King Claudius. It is the intent of this essay to analyze and probe all the various aspects of this curious personality.

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The Traditional Revenge Theory is a technique where the protagonist seeks revenge for a death. This theory is used highly in this play because the father of a son was murdered. The play begins with two guards, Horatio, and Marcellus, some of Hamlet's friends, when they first witnessed the ghost that appeared to be the past king. When they told Hamlet after his father's funeral, he did not hesitate and went to get answers. One he realized it was his father's spirit, he was shocked and confused. When his father told Hamlet that his uncle, Claudius, murdered him while he was sleeping, he was full of rage. Both the ghost and Hamlet agreed that he must plot his revenge against Claudius. This is where the idea of revenge comes into play and travels throughout the story. At first, Hamlet struggles to accept this fact, but after realizing it is true, he uses the ghost “command to avenge his [father’s] murder [and] can be seen as morally good, something quite in accord with justice and the virtue of vengeance” (Beauregard 9). Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus are the only ones who know about the ghost and the murder, so Hamlet uses that to his advantage to try to get Claudius to confess. By getting the players to play “The Murder of Gonzago”, he tries to get the king to feel guilty and confess. Not only did he try to reveal his secret to the kingdom, but he also tried to murder him while he was alone. n the play, Claudius is praying for forgiveness because he murdered his brother, but