Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Shakespeare is my poison blade.

     Hamlet's relationship with his mother is the epitome of Mommy issues. When Hamlets dad died, the reader sees the personality differences in hamlet and his mother. In hamlets case, originally, before he found out his father was murdered he wanted to mourn. His mother, on the other hand, wanted to immediately remarry and basically not even acknowledge her husbands death and leave it behind her. While hamlet was grieving, his mother even attempted to tell him that he should not even worry about it. Gertrude even attempted to cheer up hamlet by shipping in some mutual acquaintances from boarding school which of course ended badly.
     Hamlet, after finding out from his fathers ghost that his father was murdered, decided to take action and began plotting revenge. He began to act as if he was going insane and everyone believed him. He broke off his relations with Ophelia even though he was in love with her. As the play carries on it seems that Hamlet actually becomes insane. Hamlet tried to pull a guilt trip on claudius by making a play that is eerily similar to the murder of his father by his uncle. Shaken, claudius leaves the theater quickly, affirming hamlets beliefs about the death of his father. Hamlet then, in attempt to kill his uncle, accidentally kills Ophelia's father driving Ophelia to suicide. 
    In the end, Claudius and Laertes devised a plan to kill Hamlet. The king set up a fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes. Before the fight the king switched Laertes fencing stick with a sharpened one laced with poison. Hamlet actually won the fight and was offered a poison glass of wine by his uncle. he declined and continued to fight with Laertes. Then, against the kings wishes, Hamlets mom drank the poison wine. After the queen drank the wine, hamlet was stabbed with the poison blade and so was Laertes. Hamlet, finding out he was poisoned ran up to his uncle and forced him to drink down the rest of the wine. Then hamlets pleaded to his friend Horatio for him to stay alive to tell his story.

1 comment:

  1. Valid points. Slightly chronological maybe? I like the casualty. It sounds very friendly.(:

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