Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Hamlet

Hamlet is awesome!
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6 comments:

  1. AlexJanuary 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    I would have to agree.

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  2. JenJanuary 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    I'm ready to start a discussion (this is Elllie, By the way, not my Mom) So why is Hamlet so awesome? Everyone dies at the end! I think it is really sad-you know, a tragedy.

    I guess there are a lot of lessons to learn from what the characters do, or don't do! You Know what I didn't know until I started reading it was that Hamlet is suicidal! There I threw some ideas out there!

    I am sure you will discuss all this in upcoming posts!

    -Ellie

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  3. DeseretJanuary 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM

    Hey Ellie! One of the reasons the play is so awesome is because the characters are so enduring. Their connections to each other arouse so much emotion that you can't forget them. The relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude is my favorite.
    I think having every one dead at the end was an interesting effect. It shows that no one profits from evil.
    By the way, where do you hear that Hamlet was suicidal? Thats not what I got from the story.

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  4. EllieJanuary 22, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    For the record, I don't dislike Hamlet or anything, I was just making you defend your statement. Hamlet is great because of the many deep insights in human nature. It's a magnificent treasure of ideas, and emotions.
    OK maybe suicidal is 88/45too strong of a word, but he doesn't seem to care about his life, and is quite depressed.If you look in act2 scene2 the discourse between Polonius and Hamlet, Hamlet says " You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life."
    I know Hamlet is acting like He's crazy, but I think a lot of the time He's saying things that He means.
    On the next page He makes one of His speeches that I've heard quoted before, "What a piece of work man is!" but then at the end of this reverie he says man delights him not.
    There is one other place I was particularly thinking about, but I can't find it, (or I imagined it) but it said something to the effect, that nothing mattered.
    I also remember reading somewhere he was suicidal but I can't tell you where that is either.

    Ellie

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  5. DeseretJanuary 26, 2009 at 10:23 AM

    Wow. I need to actually read the play all the way through. I've just read the famous parts. That's interesting how some of the deepest parts are the ones that no one quotes.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 26, 2009 at 7:18 PM

    Hello! Hamlet is suicidal in the sense of threatening. I don't think it would ever really have occurred to him HE could be dispensable. Like I said in my other comment selfish. He was very conceited.

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