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Essay / Similarities between Hamlet and Antigone - 1040
When Hamlet lost his father, he felt exactly these symptoms. The only problem was that Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, did not. She moved forward unusually quickly and married the new king, Polonius. Hamlet says to himself: “It is a garden without weeds that bears seeds. Things of a gross and crude nature simply possess it. Let us get to this in just two dead months, or even as many, not two” (1.2.139-142). It is at this moment that the trust between Hamlet and Gertrude disappears. He is so disgusted that Gertrude didn't even wait two months before marrying her next husband, who happens to be the next king and Hamlet's uncle. The trust between a mother and her son is so important, and Gertrude breaking that trust devastated Hamlet and changed him into a different person. In Antigone, the same consequences occur when trust is broken. Antigone is very upset that the city of Thebes has been ordered by its leader, Creon, not to bury her brother. This decision was made because his brother was once a ruler of the city of Thebes and turned it into a city of chaos. Despite this, not burying a deceased person is a huge lack of respect and Antigone would not allow that to happen. As a result, she asked her sister Ismene to help her in her mission. Ismene is very hesitant when Antigone brings up this idea because she values the law more than her family. This is why Antigone says: "I will not persuade you.