motivation

In a film or a book, there are some plots that can attract audience or reader. And we call that conflict which means the interaction between people. In a good work, author has to design what makes this character decide to do someting. In another word, behind every charcter there must be a purpose. And this is really important because it will make more sense for audiences.

Laertes in the famous novel Hamlet is a example. He was a knight who is good at sword fighting. And his sister Ophelia fell in love with Hamlet,but his father Polonius who was an old fogey tried to stop their dating. Polonius thought Hamlet was crazy,so he usually spied Hamlet. His motivation is simple, that he did not want his daughter marry with a crazy guy. However, he dead sooner when he hided behind the curtain and overheaded the conversation between Hamlet and the queen. Hamlet predicted the king was hided so he thorned. This was actually a wrong action because Ophelia was very sorrowful and dead by mistakely falling in the river. Two famaily dead made Laeter just want to revenge. Hence, he challenged Hamlet in public. They decided to have  a sword fight. Before the duel, Laetes put posion on his sword. This indicates he wanted to kill Hamlet so hard. Moreover, he was an prudential person because sword was enough to damage Hamlet, but he used posion for sure that Hamlet would not alive. During the duel, Laertes was suppressed by Hamlet until Hamlet was distracted because his mom drink the posion by mistake. At the end, Laeters did thorned in Hamlet’s body. His goal was achieved, he revenged for his father and his sister successfully.  As the result, he was dead too. He was killed by Hamlet. When Hamlet got thorned, he used all his power to kill Laertes and he was successed. Anyway after this fight, lots of things changed. 

These two people had fight because they both wanted to revenge for their famaily. They had confidence to win,but the result was bad. In fact Laeters’s challenge accelerated the Hamlet’s revenge plan. From my standpoint, I do not think Laertes fought with Hamlet for keeping new king safe. Laertes was just eager to renge for his father and sister. His motivation in the whole book is the simplest. He was a strong knight but kind of lack wise because he was so impetuous when he knew his father and sister dead.