Quiet Man Cometh
We're all mad here.
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Forgot about about him, but where was call for Laertes to be King by the people at one point. Part of the reason I'm not buying it is because some of what you mentioned feels like assumption, like who loves who and what not. Hamlet's mom loves everyone, apparently, but she doesn't actually do anything in the story with that love.
Hamlet loved his dad yes, but did his dad love him as much or was his dad just miffed about being killed and insisted on revenge even though it sense his song to ruin. The ghost doesn't exactly tell him to quit at any point.
Does his Uncle actually kill Hamlet's dad because of a love for power or maybe jealousy at what his brother has? Which would come from envy and not love. He doesn't love Hamlet enough to not knock him off the throne or conspire to get him killed. Would you say he hates Hamlet though?
Hamlet loves Ophelia, yes, but doesn't do a darn thing about it being that he's too pre-occupied with his own play at madness to actually do anything about it. He only really brings it up when she's dead.
Hard to say much abotu Rosencranz and Guildenstern (best I can come up with for spelling without looking :p) seeing as there was this whole beheading mess.
It's a revenge tragedy I would say, but revenge doesn't need love to be behind it, though it's a reason. There is love in the story, most particularly between Hamlet and his father, Halmet and Ophelia, and Hamlet and Horatio. However, if anything, it's love that doesn't do a darn thing. Hamlet doesn't even mention his dad when he finally kills his uncle.
Hamlet is a great man of inaction. Spends too much time thinking and planning and very little actually doing anything until is all too late for pretty much anything. Fortinbras showed up with nothing to fight.
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Posted 08-02-2011, 01:44 AM
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