Connections

There are many different connections that I have made between some of Shakespear's plays and reference to the Bible. I have noticed that many of the hidden subliminal messages and some of the things that are not the main points that are talked about when discussing the plays are infact almost exact stories out of the Bible. For example in the play The Tempest, when Caliban is telling the other men how to take over Prospero and overthorw him he says that you must first take away his books. He says that Prospero's books are the only thing that gives him his power, because without his books he is just a simple man. This is just like in the Bible where Sampson gets his hair cut off and he looses all of his strength. The books in the Tempest and Sampson's hair are examples of the comparison between Shakespear's plays and the Bible. The next example is that in Hamlet he is made the scapegoat and is expelled from the kingdom and sent to England to be killed. In the Bible Jesus is made the scapegoat by accounting for all of the sins of mankind and he is hung on the corss. I am not sure if these simularties are just by coincedience or because they were ment to make people think about how life is just another retelling of the story of the Bible but just in a less intense way.