Answer:
Enduring hard times strengthens character.
Explanation:
The theme that can be found in both "If" and The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is that enduring hard times strengthens character.
This is because, in IF and Jungle Book, there are circumstances that come up against the protagonists and other minor characters that sees hard times test their character and they finally triumphing and having their character strengthened.
The next soliloquy Hamlet has after seeing the ghost of his father is in Act II, Scene ii after the players, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, have left him alone. In this soliloquy ("what a rogue and peasant slave am I"), Hamlet expresses his frustration with the fact that the actor could create tears in an instant about a fictional character, but he has lost his actual father and cannot even do anything about it. Through this he also decides on the plan to try and catch Claudius' guilt.
A prominent theme in Rowlandson's narrative (and Puritan writing in
general) is the sense of fear and revulsion she expresses in regards to
the wilderness. When taken captive after the attack on Lancaster,
Rowlandson was forced to face a threatening environment and endure the
treatment of her Native American captors, people whom she refers to as
"barbarous creatures," "murderous wretches" "heathen," "ravenous
beasts," and "hell-hounds."
