Hamlet vs Agamemnon Essay

In my opinion, Hamlet was more tragic a play than Agamemnon. As the audience, I felt more inc product lined to sympathize with Hamlet due to his many sad soliloquies and series of events leading to his hastinesss. This is because there was far more to acquire about(predicate) the specific defeats of Hamlet, there were far more disturbance and unrest following the events after his father died, and I felt more pity for the main character in Hamlet as opposed to Agamemnon.The events surrounding Hamlets life are far more explored than those in Agamemnon. Though we gain that Agamemnons family members are traitors, Hamlets family members have sadder, more twisted intentions that we learn about in more detail. We dont know that Agamemnon was a generally good psyche because we do not delve into his personality the way we do with Hamlet. It is clear that Hamlet was indeed a good person who had love for his father. The surrounding events where Claudius, his uncle, kills Hamlets father fo r power and his mother marries Claudius were alone enough to watch our protagonists quick and sudden downfall commence. As any good person would, Hamlets responses to these events surrounding his life were painful, mad, and full of self-doubt.Hamlet, being the main character of this play, developed into a tortuous personality full of problems, insecurity, self-doubt and procrastination. All of these characteristics are problems that most of us deal with on a daily basis. His internal conflicts lead to him philosophizing about life, death, and even suicide. This was difficult to watch/read as it lead to wondering who deserves such bad things to happen to them? His negative thoughts evoked pity and fear in the audience, which is one of Aristotles main definitions of a tragedy. In addition, Agamemnon was not even the main character or protagonist of the play, whereas Hamlet was.The events surrounding Hamlets life after his father was killed started unfolding before the audiences eyes. Once King Hamlet deceased, Marcellus says to Horatio, Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (Act I, Scene IV). This line early on in the play is foreshadowing to the brutal state of unrest soon to surround Hamlets life, family, and state.