Comparing Shakespeares Play, Hamlet and Miltons Play, Samson Agoniste

Comparing Shakespeares Play, Hamlet and Miltons Play, bullshit Agonistes The Mental Awakenings of Hamlet and crapIn William Shakespeares play Hamlet and in John Miltons play Samson Agonistes, both title characters undergo an intellectual metamorphosis, each becoming much and to a greater extent aware of the power of his attend as he learns to accomplish it. Despite a difference of almost 50 years among the writing of each of these plays, Hamelet being composed in 1601 and Samson Agonistes non being completed until circa 1646-1648, both reflect a preoccupation of the seventeenth century shared by both authors, the emergence of the mind and the human being reason.Hamlet, while already a scholar and a philosopher, must, in the ground level of his plot to revenge the death of his father, constantly reassure himself that his mind has not erred. He must verify that the apparition of his fathers ghost was a gist of health and not a goblin damned designed to comport him to an ino pportune demise. He must be certain that the revenge that he exacts on his father-in-law will suit his crime and not this same villain send / To heaven.Samson, on the other hand, must also provoke his mind, but in his case his mind has been dormant all his sprightliness and this thus presents him with a more diffficult task than that of Hamlet. Samson had always relied on his brute physical strength to rescue him from dangerous situations whereas Hamlet had the more well-rounded formation of a Renaissance man. Oddly enough, it is Samson who seems to train been more successful at the end of the tragedy in that he does not unwittingly take his mother nor his friend with him to his grave.The first suit in which Hamlet demonstrates an awakening of his mind is in Scene 1 when he must... ...t both must learn to develop and to trust their mind rather than rely on a supernatural power to prevail them. In Hamlets case, this supernatural being is the ghost of his father which comes to g ive him the terrible cause of revenging his foul death. For Samson, the cause is for the honour of his god which must be proven to be stronger and more right than the Philistine god Dagon. In the end, both succeed in awakening their minds, and while their deaths may be considered tragic, from a 17th century point of view, and even from todays perspcetive, they are heros because they erudite to put their trust in themselves as rational human beings. whole works CitedMilton, John. Samson Agonistes. In John Milton Complete Poems and Major Prose. Ed. Merritt Y. Hughes. New York Macmillan, 1957. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. rude Barnet. New York Signet Classic, 1998.