Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Notes on [Hamlet]

Pfft, royalty. I bet he's some spoiled rotten, no good man of his age.

Seems like I was wrong.

Hamlet proved that he's more than spoiled rotten and pathetic-- he actually is quite intelligent in a mischievous/morbid way.  The way Hamlet decides to let Claudius breathe more—it’s just interesting to me that he plots all this entangled revenge. I’m not sure if this marks him as a ‘good character’ but nonetheless,  he’s growing as a character. Very sly, like a fox waiting to prance at its meal… I didn’t expect Polonius to die at all. Or Gertrude. This story’s tangled up with all types of evil schemes; what was Shakespeare thinking?

Also, I can't quite grasp the theme of Hamlet. Perhaps when the time comes, I'll eventually find out.

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