hamlet
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A father's advice is taken to the heart. Father's have passed down what they know for generations to their son's. In Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare sets the plotline of ther story first with King Hamlet's advice to Prince Hamlet and later when Polonius councils his son Laertes. Although both examples of a father's council to their son are demonstrated they are quite different
King Hamlet, although a ghost, comes back to the living to give Hamlet guidance to avenge his death. The reader must assume that Hamlet and his father had a close relationship when considering King Hamlet's instructions
"If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
A couch for luxury and damned incest.
But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!" (1, 5, 81-88).
King Hamlet is literally telling Hamlet to kill his Uncle Claudius, but leave his mother to die when her time comes. For King Hamlet to blatantly tell his son to kill his own uncle, and for Hamlet to follow through with these instructions one can see how much a father impacts his son...