Sunday, February 21, 2010

Laertes

1.Laertes is a reckless guy now, since the death of his father and sister.
2. His goals in each scene are pretty much based around revenge against Hamlet for killing his father. I think this all just amplifies his hate for Hamlet, who he already disliked.
3. I'd say he's pretty tight, every one he liked is pretty much dead and he's gonna try to kill hamlet soon. I'd say that sums up his feelings nicely.
4. I think the King feels like he's like, really emotional and is the kind of person who needs to be calmed down a lot.
5. I don't really know he's just kind of talking with people. I guess he's helping the King plan Hamlets assassination.
6. Well we do learn that every one is now planning on killing Hamlet, so I'd say that's kind of significant. Maybe not too important to the dynamic of the play though.
7. I'm just trying to figure out if he's actually going to kill Hamlet or if Hamlet will beat him to the punch and kill every one.
8. I was wondering when every one was going to get sick of Hamlet being so weird and I guess this is how the Dutch solve their issues.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Hamlet thus far

so I don't feel like making all these different posts for all these different parts of the same book, so here I go.

Hamlet. Hamlet Hamlet Hamlet. Pooor Hamlet. It is unfortunate, the life he leads. The constant surprise to me in all the shakespear plays that I've read in school is that the only concerns they have are social. Oh poor me, My mother married my uncle, oh boo-hoo. What about food? How about all the other swiss or dutch what ever they are who aren't eating when this was written? Oh, I guess the royal prince just forgot about them while he complained that his life is meaningless. I am about as tired of hearing him mope about everything in his lief about as sick as I am of commercials during scrubs. God damn. In a lot of ways Hamlet reminds me of Iago from Othello. He is very cunning, and plans most things three steps ahead. The only difference is he doesn't tell the audience all about about it when the other characters leave the stage like Iago does.

I like that better though.