The last response to course material! Since the last response, we have finished Hamlet and have watched two different movies of Hamlet. The first one kept very true to the play and left it up to interpretation. This was helpful for me because it helped me visualize the play and gave even more meaning to what the characters said. The second one was more modern and was definitely more entertaining, despite being four hours. This version did all of the thinking for you, which made it much more watchable. These movies definitely helped in my understanding of the play.
Once going back through the play and annotating it, I realized how just about everything in the play connected together to the whole picture. There are many themes and motifs in the play. Like Hamlet's fascination with and remarks multiple times how everyone ends up the same when they are dead. Hamlet as character is probably one of the most complex characters I have ever met. I think this speaks to how good of a playwright Shakespeare was and that 400 hundred years later, we still read his plays.
Mo,
ReplyDeleteI didn't know this was the last response! SWEET! Yeah, the first one did leave a lot up to interpretation which I didn't really care for. I guess it's because I don't really like to think about the meaning. I would rather have it presented to me very clearly and plainly. Hamlet is a super complex character and I can't think of even one character who is close to as complex as he is.