It is in human nature to seek answers in an attempt to come to terms with hardships or when someone wrongs another person. Whether this be by means of forgiving and forgetting, simply moving on, or getting revenge, a person will inevitably try to find closure. William Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet and Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel Sarah’s Key both demonstrate how humans crave closure and how people will go to great lengths to achieve it. The characters of these works endure a great deal of struggles to get revenge and to reveal the truth for a sense of closure post tragedy. In the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet, Prince Hamlet plans to get revenge for the malevolent acts of his uncle, Claudius. King Claudius had murdered the former King, Hamlet’s father, and married the Queen, Hamlet’s mother Gertrude. Prince Hamlet devotes himself to avenging his father’s death because the ghost of his deceased father informs him of Claudius’ sinful actions. “Haste me to know’t, that I with wings as swift / As meditation, or the thoughts of love, / May sweep to my revenge” (I.v.29-31). Later, a group of traveling actors come to Elsinore, and Hamlet takes advantage of this to test his uncle’s guilt. He has the players perform a scene closely resembling the way Claudius had murdered his father, so that if Claudius…show more content… There are various ways this could be accomplished. William Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet and Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel Sarah’s Key both demonstrate how humans crave closure and how people will do just about anything to achieve it. The characters of these works go through many struggles to get revenge and to reveal the truth for a sense of closure for what had happened; such as Hamlet dealing with a malicious uncle that murdered his father and married his mother and Julia trying to find out the truth of what happened to Sarah and coming to terms with miscarriages and a unsupportive
