Initial Reaction: It
finally feels like something is happening.
Tension keeps building and building and soon it’s gonna get crazy. I felt like a lot happened in this act. Hamlet is a dick to Ophelia, the play
happens, Hamlet kills Polonius and goes off on his mom.
Character Analysis:
Going with Hamlet on this one.
Hamlets fatal flaw is that he is a little bitch. I’m sorry, but he is. He doesn’t have the sac to kill the king yet,
and when he gets his opportunity to do so he doesn’t because Claudius is
praying (and will thus go to heaven upon death). And to get himself “pumped up,” as I believe
our teacher said, he verbally abuses Ophelia for the better part of a
scene. Nice move asshole.
Theme Analysis: This play is
driving me insane. Shakespeare is using imagery
to prove that anyone can go mad from reading one of his plays. When Shakespeare has Claudius say, “Oh, my offence is rank. It smells
to heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse upon ’t,” Shakespeare is really commenting
on his act of writing this play.
Shakespeare is toying with us all.
He knew that people would be arguing over the meaning of his writings
for centuries if not millennia. “Have you eyes?” He is insulting us now. He thinks we are blind to his trickery. “Sense sure you have, Else could you not have
motion. But sure that sense, Is apoplexed, for madness would not err.” So. Done. With. This.
As for the negative tone,
I’m really not in the mood to do this right now I just need to get it done, so
I’m sorry if you actually read this.
Hi Jordan, I did actually read this post, but I don't think you have anything to be sorry for. :) You "negative tone" was actually quite amusing and I ended up laughing out loud multiple times. :) I agree, I think Act III was a bit overwhelming and things finally began to pick up. I think that Hamlet is still struggling with revenge in this act. He marveled over how Fortinbras' men were willing to go to war over an insignificant piece of land. Hamlet couldn't bring himself to get revenge for his father's death, which is a much better reason to kill than a stupid piece of land. As for your theme, I really like it. Nice use of supporting it with "evidence" from the text.
ReplyDeleteI also think it was guilt/sin because Claudius the King was asking for forgiveness too. I didn't thought he would be mad.
ReplyDeleteIt's fine. This is probably the most interesting post I've read all day. (:
ReplyDeleteHamlet is totally a complete jerk. I think he's smart and has the potential for greatness but he's using his smarts to be a jerk to everyone around him except like Horatio or whoever helps him. He's causing pain for everyone around him, but that's cause they're causing pain to him since his father is dead and his mother married his uncle. It's pretty insane. I can see why he is a punk. It makes the story funny though. He really is flawed in terms of not taking on revenge faster because even his father Ghost says he is taking to long to execute revenge on his uncle. He could have done it so much sooner but he kept waiting and waiting.
*Its fine
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