David And Hamlet

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are very harsh. During a heated discussion with his mother Gertrude, he accidentally slays Laertes’ father, Polonius, thinking it to be Claudius. Hamlet quickly brushes it aside. He also sends his friends , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to their deaths when he learns of Claudius’ plot to have him put to death when he arrived in England as a so called diplomat.
Hamlet cannot decide between a life of action and revenge, or contemplation and fate and he is genuinely concerned with the deeper truths upon which his life is ordered- fate and freewill.
Ernest Buckler portrays the life of his main character, David Canaan, in conflict, through a slow moving metaphor from the valley to the mountain. David is a deeply intellectual character and like Hamlet has a conflicted dichotomous nature.
One of his difficulties arise from the death of his girlfriend Effie. He feels guilty and responsible for. Also, when his friend Toby comes to the valley for the first time, David is ...

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also his security blanket.
David realizes that he will forever remain in the valley after a particular incident occurs in the fields after he and his father struggle to accept each other. David and Joseph were trying to move a extremely large boulder and they got into an argument while trying to pry the boulder up with a log. David insults his fathers intelligence and Joseph strikes David on the face. David decides not to strike back and tells his father that he would like to leave this ‘goddamn hole’ and he decides to run away. He gets picked up by a couple from the city but soon after starts to think of his father and asks to be let off making up the excuse that he has ...

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