Did You Know? ... The German scholar, Gervinus, has contrasted the characters of Hamlet and Macbeth. There are seven main differences:
1. Hamlet is called upon by the "honest ghost" of his father to do a righteous deed. Macbeth is tempted by doubtful riddles, by the powers of evil, to do an unjust and unnatural deed.
2. Nature and reason spur Hamlet on. Nature and reason restrain Macbeth.
3. Hamlet, though urged to action, lingers, in the hope that the result may arise of itself. Macbeth, who is advised to wait, snatches at the result beforehand.
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