-Compare in an essay Hamlets attitudes about revenge with Matt Fowlers in Andre Dubuss short story Killings(p.81) Losing a loved one to tragedy, especially two most brutal and malicious tragedys as these, will torture the minds of any and all men. Terrifying thoughts, even carefully planned acts of revenge will plow themselves into your brain. It is how we react to these situations that can and will forever define that man, his life, and his actions. In these two stories, Hamlets father and Matt Fowlers son are murdered with jealous motives of romance, ambition, betrayal and rage. Revenge captures the hearts of both characters, but in different forms. Hamlet sees his fathers ghost and is told if he ever loved his father he is to [revenge his foul and most unnatural murder]. The brutal slayer of Fowlers son is out on bail and faces minimal jail time for the life of Frank Fowler, Matts youngest son. Matt decides to take the law into his own hands and with the help of a friend, plans and executes the murder of Richard Strout.With the killer of his son bar-hopping around town and his wife broken apart with grief, Matt Fowler loses himself in revenge. He begins to carry an unregistered gun hoping to confront Strout and kill him in self-defense. He is defeated in his professional life, losing his nerve as a hard-working bank manager, unable to look his customers in the eye without shying away in fear and grief. Finally confessing himself to a poker buddy, his murderous intentions rush out onto the table. His friend, whos sympothy and loyalty may be excessive, agrees to help Matt take his revenge on Strout. Hamlet, instead, seeks his revenge alone.When Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo take Hamlet to see the ghost of his father, he follows the ghost into the night alone. The ghost tells Hamlet about Claudius and Gertrude murdered him and that it is his duty to take revenge: So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear. . . (If ...
