Hamlet: comparison between father and son In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Hamlet was a man who looked up to his father throughout his life, during and after the death of his father. Young Hamlet tried to follow in his father's footsteps, but as similar as they were, they were very different. The man named Hamlet had a son named Hamlet and after it was all over, this is one of the few things they had in common. King Hamlet and Hamlet confront each other as they are both upset by the queen's marriage, they both hate Claudius, they are both brave, and both are dead at the end of the play. They contrast in that while Hamlet's father was king, Hamlet will never have the kingship, Hamlet leaves no inheritance, and they die differently. Hamlet admired his father because he felt that he was a great leader and the bravest man he knew. , as Hamlet mentioned, “so excellent a king” (I. ii.149). She wanted to be like him so badly, but she couldn't due to a couple of barriers she faced. his father in the end. Hamlet was very disappointed in his life because he knew that becoming king was something he did not have in common with his father, because his stepfather was king, "married to my uncle, my father's brother" (I. ii. 151- 2). Hamlet was greatly troubled by his mother's marriage, and, as he later learns, so was his father: "It is not, nor can it go well: but break my heart, for I must hold my tongue" (I. ii. 157-8). The ghost of Hamlet's father advises his own opinion: "Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest" (I. v. 82-3). Both shared hatred towards Claudius, the king and his wife. of Hamlet's mother and his father's widow. Hamlet expresses his hatred in I. v. 106, 108-9, "O bad, bad... That can smile... and be a bad; At least I'm sure it could be so in Denmark." The ghost expresses his hatred in I. v. 38-9, 42, "The serpent that stung your father's life Now wears his crown. Yea, that incestuous, adulterated beast." Hamlet becomes brave like his father when he kills the king, his stepfather, when the king's plot to kill Hamlet goes awry, and the queen drinks the poisoned drink herself..