When one read Hamlet and Antigone stories, you will notice that they share parallel circumstances concerning the death of a near loved one and being faithful to the dead. Mutual stories literally defy those in power in one-way or another, and in equal admiration the desires of the deceased to rest in peace and tranquility. It is only in their tactic toward their problems that they are really distinctive. Whenever anyone reads Antigone, she is depicted as resilient, rebellious, and influential. She recognizes what is required to do and sees to it being done malevolently, lacking regret and prepared to take the penalties. Hamlet is depicted as irresolute and pathetic in his style, hesitant of what needs be completed but having inward conviction…show more content… Hamlet is also looked upon as irresolute, uncertain and reluctant. When speaking to Horatio, Hamlet prays after speaking to his father’s ghost. Act 1 – scene 5 “For every man has business and desire, Such as it is; and for mine own poor part, Look you, I’ll go pray”. Along with being weak, Hamlet is portrayed indirect in several perspectives. Firstly, himself; Act 1 – Scene 2- [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind. [Claudius informing Hamlet to move on] – To give these mourning duties to your father: But, you must know, your father lost a father; that father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term to do obsequious sorrow: but to preserver. Secondly, to his mother; Act 1 – Scene 2 - My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules: within a month: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my…show more content… Antigone experienced the loss of her brother; one that is left unburied and not resting in peace due to a decree from a king. Antigone conversation to Ismene, “But the hapless corpse of Polyneices-as rumor said, it hath been published to the town that none shall entomb him or mourn, but leave unwept, unsepulchred, a welcome store for the birds, as they espy him, to feast on at will.” However; when you look at Hamlet, his loss is of his father and his father’s ghost is unable to rest in peace. Act 1 – Scene 5 - I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. There are also other similarities of both poems. Disappointment and failure in the family is a theme that cannot be overlooked. Ismene’s refused to help Antigone bury the brother’s body. Ismene states “I do them no dishonor; but to defy the State – I have no strength for that.” Then on the other hand, Hamlet’s mother married his uncle and Hamlet is alone to avenge his father’s death. Act 1 Scene 5 - Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, with witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, -- O wicked wit and gifts that have the power so to seduce! – won to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! From me, whose love was of that dignity