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__//**i dont know what they want from me, its like the moe money we come across the moe problems we see!**//__ Funny Stuff media type="custom" key="13392214" 3/19/12

20/2/2012

At last, the final climax of this tragic tail of murder most foul! We've reached the showdown between Hamlet and Laertes for honor and revenge, but it would be ignorant to assume there won't be other victims of this violent rampage. Hamlet Sr. Claudius Gertrude Hamlet Ophelia Polonious Laertes Robin Williams HORATIO!?!? How did Horatio, the play's least interesting character end up as the only one left standing? Horatio: "And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about. So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause; And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads. All this can I Truly deliver." This guy is pretty dang lucky that someone needs to survive to pass on this dysfunctional tale.
 * THE POISON!!**
 * Character List: **

In regards to our essential question, it seems that Horatio's sanity wasn't ever in question, he didn't have to worry about being in danger of falling to the various poisons placed throughout the castle. ?
 * Is this because his ivolvement in any plots is minimal, or because he's so bland a character that his death would've seemed unnessesary?

12/2/2012

//"One woe doth tread upon another's heel,// //So fast they follow..."// It's interesting, because this creates a situation where Laertes should be filled with as much hate and a desire for vengeance as Hamlet is. Eventually, that's exactly what happens.
 * Nophelia; Don't Do It**
 * In Act 4, Gertrude plays the bearer of bad news and tells Laertes of his sister, Ophelia's tragic death.
 * Gertrude says this because it was only recently that Laertes' father, Polonious, was stabbed by Hamlet.

But what I'm most curious about is the legitimacy of Ophelia's death. How strange does her accident sound?

//"Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds,// //As one incapable of her own distress,// //Or like a creature native and indued// //Unto that element: but long it could not be// //Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,// //Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay// //To muddy death."// Indeed, not the most natural of passings. certainly reflect Ophelia's insanity. But it also suggests something more foul. who wouldn't approve of her union with Hamlet.
 * To not attempt to save herself, as any sane creature would naturally do, would
 * While not presenting any true evidence that she'd want Ophelia dead, Gertrude would strike me as someone

If Gertrude were to say Ophelia died "incapable of her own distress", it would be assumed that she were crazy, or even suicidal.
 * Is it possible that Gertrude could've murdured Ophelia, or at least covered up the nature of her death?**
 * In regards to our essential question, insanity is largely determined by whatever popular preception is determined by others.

If Ophelia happened to die shouting for help, or at least struggling to escape, her rememberance would have a completely different light to it. 5/2/2012


 * Hey God, it's me, lil' Hamlet**

The root of all of the sillyness involved in the story of __Hamlet__ is all of the characters' belief in Christianity and their eternal lives after death. If Hamlet didn't feel his father wouldn't make it to heaven because he was murdured prior to confessing, his lust for vengeance probably wouldn't be nearly as prevelant.


 * HAMLET || O, that this too too solid flesh would melt ||
 * || Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! ||  ||
 * || Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd ||
 * || His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! ||
 * || How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, ||
 * || Seem to me all the uses of this world! ||
 * || Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, ||
 * || That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature ||
 * || Possess it merely. That it should come to this! ||
 * || But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: ||
 * || So excellent a king; that was, to this, ||
 * || Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother ||  ||
 * || That he might not beteem the winds of heaven ||
 * || Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! ||
 * || Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, ||
 * || As if increase of appetite had grown ||
 * || By what it fed on: and yet, within a month-- ||
 * || Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!-- ||
 * || A little month, or ere those shoes were old ||
 * || With which she follow'd my poor father's body, ||
 * || Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she-- ||
 * || O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, ||  ||
 * || Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, ||
 * || My father's brother, but no more like my father ||
 * || Than I to Hercules: within a month: ||
 * || Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears ||
 * || Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, ||
 * || She married. O, most wicked speed, to post ||
 * || With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! ||
 * || It is not nor it cannot come to good: ||
 * || But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue. ||

In his first sililoquy, Hamlet mentions "God" a total of three times, as well as proclaiming "heaven and earth!"

At this point, Hamlet would prefer to take his own life than get swept up in his mom's pervy cougar drama, but due to his belief that it's a terrible sin to take one's life, he remains in his deppressed, loathsome state.

How big is "religion" in the story of Hamlet, and what other factors are influenced by the character's faith?

29/1/2012


 * Insane in the Membrane**

-Prior to insanity, or projected insanity, skepticism always tends to be present in those believed to be crazy, even after they've seen proof.
====-In Act I, Scene I, when Horatio is brought to hopefully witness Hamlet Sr.'s apparition appear, he's initially unconvinced and believes the Watchmen to all be mistaken or full of it. He doesn't outrightly express it, but he must undoubtedly consider his friends to be insane since they're so convinced of such an unbelievable prospect.====

====Mar. " Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night; That, if again this apparition come He may approve our eyes and speak to it ."====

Hor. " Tush, tush, 'twill not appear ."
====-It isn't until he finally sees the ghost with his own eyes that he believes such fantasy to be true. But even still, Horatio begins to question his own sanity, as will Hamlet later on when confronted with his deceased father.====

====-In the above clip, after Sr. (Homer) appears in Jr.'s (Bart's) bed chamber, he still remains slightly unconvinced. It's not till Claudius (Mo) proclaims, "I didn't use that much poison", that Hamlet realizes its true.====

====-I find it slightly odd that Horatio is so quick to accept the existance of a ghost just from its appearance, while HamHam has a full conversation with it, and still needs more convincing. It isn't like he has any reason not to believe it to be true considering he's already resentful of creepy Uncle Claudius.====