“Emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things…” According to Pseudonymous Bosch, emotions are the cause of peoples’ actions. In a plot, usually tragedy, the downfall of the protagonist is usually due to an intense emotion that caused him to take an irrational action. Emotions, therefore, can be seen in all the books as the themes such as jealousy, hatred and more that further the plot. Many books have some themes in common. In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, and the novel A Separate Peace, be John Knowles, there are many identical themes. While both the works have the themes of acceptance and guilt in common, the notion of revenge in Hamlet differs to the one in A Separate Peace.
One of the themes found in Hamlet is the theme of acceptance. Hamlet accepted his destiny to take revenge for his father’s murder. He conceives that, “there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is’t to leave betimes? Let be” (5.2.205-210). Hamlet believes that nothing happens out of God’s will and everything a man suffers from and does is written in his fate. Hamlet’s fate is to avenge …show more content…
Gene feels guilty being the cause of Finny’s accident. He wants to confess to Finny as he can not bear the feeling of guilt. He tries to confess the first time but is interrupted. Hence, he continues to think about the accident and feel guilty. Therefore, he decides confesses to Finny the second time about, “…thinking about it…about you [Finny] because-I [he] was thinking about you and the accident because I [he] caused it” (Knowles 69). Finny does not believe him; thus, Gene decides to carry this guilt with him; without letting anyone know that he is responsible for Finny’s leg to
One of the themes found in Hamlet is the theme of acceptance. Hamlet accepted his destiny to take revenge for his father’s murder. He conceives that, “there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is’t to leave betimes? Let be” (5.2.205-210). Hamlet believes that nothing happens out of God’s will and everything a man suffers from and does is written in his fate. Hamlet’s fate is to avenge …show more content…
Gene feels guilty being the cause of Finny’s accident. He wants to confess to Finny as he can not bear the feeling of guilt. He tries to confess the first time but is interrupted. Hence, he continues to think about the accident and feel guilty. Therefore, he decides confesses to Finny the second time about, “…thinking about it…about you [Finny] because-I [he] was thinking about you and the accident because I [he] caused it” (Knowles 69). Finny does not believe him; thus, Gene decides to carry this guilt with him; without letting anyone know that he is responsible for Finny’s leg to