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=Hamlet Blog #4=

Everybody's Dead!!!
**Sooo..... Shall we see who got kicked off the island this week?**


 * Hamlet **


 * Claudius **


 * Gertrude **


 * Laertes **


 * Rosencrantz **


 *  Guildenstern **


 * Ophelia **

**The State of Denmark would like to congratulate Horatio and Prince Fortinbras on being the only major characters who survived.**

** Very Basic Summary of Act 5 **

Despite Hamlet's philosophical musings on both the nature and commonality of death, he too succumbs to its inevitable progress. Hamlet acknowledges the effects of death on even the greatest of men. While Hamlet is deeply emotional over the death of Yorick he is very calm over the prospect of his own death. However, Hamlet beseeches Horatio: As thou'rt a man, Give me the cup: let go; by heaven If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart Tell my story Despite his own suicidal thoughts, Hamlet will not allow Horatio to do the same thing he himself seriously contemplated.Has Hamlet decided that suicide really isn't the way to go? I'm inclined to say yes. Hamlet specifically references heaven in his plea to Horatio, implying that Hamlet believes in the prospect of heaven now that he has given up on the idea of suicide. Or maybe Hamlet, in spite of all hi philosophizing, really just doesn't want to see the only friend he has left die.

=Hamlet Blog #3 =

2/12/12 8:15 PM
=Dead Rats = Lots of people die in Hamlet in lots of nasty ways. Polonius gets killed while standing behind a curtain, while spying on a guy he thinks is insane, which may or may not be caused by his love for his daughter. And then he’s left to lie on the floor dying while Hamlet and his mom continue their discussion while the ghost of another dead guy watches them. Conclusion: Lots of dead people, dying in nasty ways, while doing kinda nasty things. **HAMLET ** [Drawing] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! **LORD POLONIUS ** <span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[Behind] O, I am slain! **<span style="font-family: Times,serif;">QUEEN GERTRUDE ** <span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">O me, what hast thou done? **<span style="font-family: Times,serif;">HAMLET ** <span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Nay, I know not: Is it the king?

<span style="font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Hamlet doesn’t hesitate to kill Polonius. He stabs first and asks questions later. Hamlet doesn’t even realize who he has killed; he simply hopes it’s the King. Hamlet has no problem killing Polonius, so why hesitate over Claudius? Gertrude and Hamlet carry on as if there isn’t a dead guy on the floor. Kinda makes you wonder about Gertrude’s state of mind along with Hamlet's. I mean what kinda sane person leaves a dead guy in the middle of their floor? While they <span style="font-family: Times,serif; line-height: 23px;">continue <span style="font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> a conversation about their son's trip to England? Who knows, maybe Hamlet gets the crazies from his mom's side of the family? <span style="color: #2a3b5b; display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Polonius's Death Scene Backwards:

<span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Hamlet believes he has killed a rat, and in a way he has. Now Polonius is a dead rat instead of a live one. I wonder how long it will take him to finish off the rest of the rats in the palace?

=<span style="color: #040604; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Hamlet Blog #2 =

<span style="color: #040604; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">2/5/12 9:35 PM
=<span style="color: #040604; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ghostly Insanity =

<span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of the most talked about topics in Hamlet is the sanity of its title character. This is in part demonstrated by its presence in half of our essential questions. Hamlet’s encounter with the ghost is the first indicator we receive that Hamlet might not be entirely sane. Seeing ghosts is never a good sign, but it’s especially bad when that ghost is telling you to kill your uncle and anybody else who ever set foot in the state of Denmark. We do have corroborating evidence in favor of Hamlet’s sanity in that Marcellus and Bernardo do see the ghost. So we can safely assume that Hamlet is at least marginally sane up to this point. However, Horatio gives the wise counsel that Hamlet not follow the ghost for, <span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, <span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff <span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason <span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> And draw you into madness? think of it:

<span style="color: #2a3b5b; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Horatio seems to think that the worst thing to befall Hamlet is madness. This implies that madness is a fate worse than death, that everyone must fear madness. Horatio appeals to Hamlet's reason, which means he still believes Hamlet is sane. However Horatio seems to think he might not stay that way if he talks to the ghost. This makes me wonder, was it his conversation with the ghost that pushed Hamlet over the edge into madness?

<span style="color: #030407; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14pt;">No matter how crazy Hamlet is, **Nobody out-crazies Ophelia!!!** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Warning: may contain some bad dancing media type="youtube" key="1S8ixUzeSl8" height="315" width="420" align="center"

=Hamlet Blog #1=

1/29/11 6:32 PM
=//One Hamlet Dead: Another Hamlet Depressed//= = =

//A concerned citizen of Denmark’s, i.e.my, reaction to an article in// The København Post //pertaining to the recent death of King Hamlet://

//<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 26pt;">The //<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 28pt;">København Post <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Two days ago our great country of Denmark lost its king. He was bitten by a serpent while asleep in his garden, //(really a snake, in Denmark, in the middle of winter?)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Our Late King’s Brother has offered to immediately assume the throne. //(I wonder why…)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Claudius has stressed the need to maintain a united front against Norway and Prince Fortinbras, //(Wait, I thought the King killed him?)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">son of the recently deceased King Fortinbras.

= = <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Claudius has set the coronation date for today, //(what? Why didn’t he announce this earlier, oh right, ‘cause he’s only been around for two days!)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">only hours after the internment of our late King Hamlet. Claudius has announced that he will also marry //(whaaa?? Who’s he marrying?)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">King Hamlet’s widow, Gertrude, //(isn’t she like his sister or something//? //No? Well it’s still just wrong)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Claudius has also expressed the desire to officially adopt Hamlet , <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">son of the late King Hamlet, //(man, these royal families have got to stop naming their kids after themselves)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">as his son. //(Okay… so Claudius is gonna be Hamlet’s dad and his uncle, which means his mom is also his aunt?? Now that’s really weird, and then there are all those rumors about Hamlet and his mom, eugh)//

<span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Many have stated that this last request of Claudius’s may be nigh on impossible. //(and the others haven’t been?)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">They base this on the fact that Hamlet has been heard to say of his relationship with Claudius that they are little more than kin but less than kind. //(poor child, he seems a little wary of his uncle-father)// = = <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Hamlet hasn’t been seen since his father’s death //(it’s only been two days! Jeez!)// <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">and many are beginning to speculate that Hamlet may be suffering from depression. //(Aw, come on! Give the kid a break, his dad just died!)//<span style="font-family: Times,serif;"> Claudius has gone so far as to suggest that: = = <span style="color: #3c949f; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">“to persevere = = <span style="color: #3c949f; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> In obstinate condolement is a course = = <span style="color: #3c949f; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief” = = //(So now Claudius thinks he’s a better man ‘cause he’s not sad his brother died? Hamlet’s grief is only just, and Claudius’s lack is disgusting)// = = <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Many claim that Claudius’s excessive ceremonies deter people from observing the proper burial rights for King Hamlet. This abrupt regime change will cause many changes for the State of Denmark, whether for good or ill, is yet to be seen. //(Yeah, right. It’s obviously not gonna be good. There’s obviously something rotten in the state of Denmark. Hmm… maybe I should be a poet…)// = =

// My reaction to these scenes has been somewhat skeptical, that the populace would accept Claudius so soon after Hamlet’s death, no questions asked. Surely someone other than Hamlet must still grieve for the former King? Hamlet is truly justified in his grief and his wariness of Claudius’s lack thereof. //

=**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">H e l l o, **=

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