Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Family issues

(Warning there may be spoilers to Shakespeare's play "Hamlet")

Hamlet is full of exciting plot twists and dramatic scenes that shock even the brightest of characters. In the first act Hamlet finds out that his uncle newly became his dad and had recently murdered Hamlet's father. Hamlet's father wants to get revenge on the newly crowned king and Hamlets mother. To do this he enlists the help of his son. Hamlet then starts acting strange. People in the kingdom start to notice that Hamlet is acting a little weird, and take it to the king.

I find this part of the play interesting because Hamlet was already angry about his uncle marrying his mother the same day that they had his father's funeral. This new information that his father's ghost gives to Hamlet just fuels the fire. When Hamlet figures this out he knows that "I better do something, or I might be next on the killing list." That may even be true in the future parts of the play. I find it funny that Hamlet's mother just went for his uncle less then a month after his father died. The whole family is tearing at the seems because the son does not like anyone anymore, and then the mother and uncle start getting together right after the father dies, and to add even more craziness the father's ghost tells the son that he needs to get revenge on the uncle and to let the mother suffer with the guilt. 

I just find that this family has some serious family issues. They should talk it out to fix everything wrong in their weird relationship, but it is a Shakespeare play, so everyone will most likely die... 

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