Thursday, November 7, 2013

The end, for everyone! (well except Horatio)

      The end of "Hamlet" was different than most Shakespearean plays, and it was interesting. The way that everyone just started dropping like flies was funny. Then at the end I felt bad for Horatio because he was the only one living when Fortinbras came in. That would be the most awkward situation anyone has ever experienced. Everyone was just lying on the floor dead, and then the king of another country just walks in the door after your best friend died, and said to live to tell their story. I would have probably just ran away and decided to never come back. In Act 5 Scene 2 all of the death occurred. You figure out that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are most likely dead by the hand of paranoid Hamlet, and then begins the duel. I just found the way that Gertrude died to be hilarious because okay lets drink something that your husband tells you not to drink. Where was some common sense as to: "My husband/brother has been trying to kill my son/nephew all year, lets drink something that Claudius is trying to make only Hamlet drink." Yeah she was ignorant. Also Hamlet, we know you hated Claudius, but I don't think that he will be coming back after you stab him. I just felt that force feeding him poison after he was already bleeding to death was a little much. I also don't get how Laertes and Hamlet swords got switched, they were in each of their hands for crying out loud. If I was going to kill someone with a poison dipped sword, I would be extremely careful as to where it is, but hey that is only my opinion.

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