hamlet

Now that winter break is over, it’s time to blog again! I want to talk about hamlet. Although we’ve only read the beginning parts of the play, it’s clear that the character Hamlet has his way with words. His very first line was very witty and was a fitting opening line for him. Even knowing that Hamlet was clever with his words, I didn’t catch all of the puns in his opening line. I then realized that I had to really pay attention and look up words in the dictionary to fully appreciate Hamlet’s mastery of words. In reality, Hamlet’s play on words reveals Shakespeare’s genius nature. It really is unbelievable how he can think of all these “punny” lines (unintentional pun). But then again, it’s Shakespeare. He’s not the greatest playwright ever for no reason.

From what I’ve read, it seems that Hamlet is extremely upset and angry. He is lonely in the sense that everyone else has moved on after his father’s death—including his confusing mother. On top of all this, hamlet has to put up with the patronizing Claudius who became king instead of hamlet. If you put yourself in his situation, you can’t help but feel he has every right to be mad and rebellious. However, hamlet controls his raw emotions and hides it in public. What he doesn’t hide is his grief for his passed away father. It’s strange how everyone else seems to have already moved on, especially his mother. In less than a month after his father’s death, Hamlet’s mother married his brother. This really baffled me as I couldn’t understand why or how his mother could do this. Shakespeare doesn’t leave the readers with any clues as to why she did this. Perhaps she had an affair with Claudius before the death of hamlet’s father. If this were true, the death of Hamlet’s father would be very fishy. Also, I still don’t get why Claudius became king when Hamlet was old and capable of taking the reins himself. It all seems so fishy. Nonetheless, hamlet hides his resentment very well. But at the same time, he expresses this resentment subtly. For example, hamlet talks to his mother and plays with the word “common”. His mother has no idea that hamlet is subtly criticizing her. His mother is a very confusing character. Once again, Shakespeare doesn’t leave many definitive clues as to if she is a mere pawn of Claudius or the mastermind behind the death of hamlet’s father. Whatever the case, Hamlet is absolutely disgusted with his mother. And understandably so. In the early stages of the play, hamlet doesn’t really translate his feelings into action but I have a feeling that he will in the later parts of the play