Three. Similarities and differences between Don Quixote and Hamlet.

(A) * * * Similarities

They all have humanistic thoughts, full of moral sense and sense of responsibility, and all react violently to the evil in reality. Because of this, they all showed extraordinary courage and courage when defending their dignity from being trampled by bad habits.

They are all lonely people who pursue their ideals, maverick, incompatible with reality, lonely and incomprehensible. In a society where dark forces are in power, heroes are always lonely. Hamlet is lonely. He has a beloved mother, but he can't communicate with her, because her mother betrayed her father and "can't wait to get into the chaotic quilt"; He fell in love with Ophelia, but naive she was just a pawn in his father's struggle for power and profit; There are many courtiers and friends around him, but they are too busy to devote themselves to the court struggle. Horatio is the only friend to talk to, but he can't talk to his heart. Compared with Hamlet, Don Quixote's loneliness seems more sad. Don Quixote lives in a quiet country, and people around him, whether Sancho, the housekeeper and niece, Samson, the priest, and Nicholas Barber, like him very much. However, none of them can really understand Don Quixote's pursuit. They are a group of people living in the secular world. Even Sancho, the closest attendant, can't get along with Don Quixote day and night, can't touch Don Quixote's ideological height slightly on the issue of ideal life, and can't give him spiritual comfort and encouragement in life. Because of this, the two protagonists in the novel, when pursuing the end of the road, finally closed their hearts and stopped trying to communicate and reconcile with the secular world, and both chose to go to their own ideal halls without hesitation.

They all have a crazy side. In the novel, these two lonely fighters who pursue their ideals invariably take the "crazy" behavior when they fight against the society. Don Quixote is "crazy" not so much because he is fascinated by "knight novels" as because he is fascinated by his idealized "knight spirit". Don Quixote's madness is a spiritual realm. But it is this mental state of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" that makes his behavior always look different and ridiculous. Hamlet's "madness" is fake, so when others see him as "madness", his heart is very painful, because he knows that "no one is more awake than himself". "Madness" is the veil of protection that he was forced to put on himself in the political struggle.

Their fate is tragic. Don Quixote was very creative physically and mentally on his way to the palace, while Hamlet was even more extreme, and he even gave his life for it.

(2) Difference

Turgenev compared these two world-renowned literary images. He thinks that Don Quixote is full of passion and dares to act, while Hamlet is melancholy, hesitant and indecisive, "thinking and doubting all his life, so that he does nothing". However, despite repeated delays, Hamlet is not a person who lacks the ability to act.

As far as the attitude towards self and beliefs or ideals other than self is concerned, Don Quixote shows a kind of faith, "faith in something eternal and unshakable, faith in truth." Don Quixote is loyal to his ideal wholeheartedly, so he is prepared to endure all hardships and sacrifice his life. " Hamlet is an egoist. He lives for himself. He has no faith and even doubts about himself; He has been busy for himself, but not because of his responsibility, but because of his situation. Ego is not only the starting point of Hamlet, but also the object of his doubt and examination. He is always introspecting himself and self-observation.

In his attitude towards women and love, Don Quixote fell in love with Dulcinea, a non-existent "fictional" woman. His love (continued from page 48) (continued from page 43) is pure and idealistic, so ideal that he doesn't even doubt that the object he loves doesn't exist. Ophelia described by Hamlet is a real and tangible object of love. As long as he wants, he can see his lover at any time, but the naive and weak Ophelia can't share any joy and confusion in the spiritual world with him.

As far as identity is concerned, Don Quixote is a declining country aristocrat, and Hamlet is a noble court prince. As far as characters are concerned, the former is a comedy image and the latter is a tragedy image; As for the character, Don Quixote is optimistic, but out of date, and attaches importance to action, but he acts too fast and lacks thinking, so that the result is always in distress situation and sympathetic. Hamlet is pessimistic, full of doubts and thinks too much, but he is slow to act, which makes people feel inaccessible and heartless; Don Quixote is a giant of action and a dwarf of thought, while Hamlet is a giant of thought and a dwarf of action. Sometimes, they show almost two opposite extreme personalities.

As two typical humanistic figures in the Renaissance, their personalities are indeed diametrically opposed. Don Quixote has a clear and firm goal, while Hamlet hesitates. But they are very similar: they are absolutely isolated figures, although their social environment and difficulties are completely different, which effectively exposes the weakness of humanists in isolating the masses. Don Quixote's wandering and wandering, his declining desire to fight to the death with powerful impersonal enemies, and Hamlet's hesitation are all in the same strain. These two figures left a glorious page in the history of literature.

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