Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Notes on Hamlet

The play has certainly evolved from the fact that act the beginning Hamlet was shocked about the news of his uncle killing his father and just all together angry at everyone and everything around him. And now that the play has developed, he is now this strong character with a mindset of his own. He has a plan and he is going to stick to it to take revenge against his uncle. We now have this wondering in the back of our brains of what is going to happen. Is Hamlet actually going to kill his uncle? The plot has thickened a lot and everything is more suspenseful now.

At the beginning of the play, I thought that it was going to be about straight-forward revenge, but now that all of these twists and turns are happening, I'm starting to think that all that awaits for me now is suspense after suspense. Before, after hearing that Claudius killed his father, I thought Hamlet was just going to right away kill his uncle. But now that he has hatched this plan to catch his uncle, everything has become more on edge. I feel like the plot and the characters are going to keep on thickening up and we are going to be left with one big catastrophe at the end of the play.

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