Monday, October 4, 2010

What I Reckon Of Hamlet So Far

Right so. 
Hamlet.
Bit of an idiot, really.
In his last soliloquy, which we just read, he's basically berating himself for doing a whole big bunch of stupid stupid things.
LIKE getting some actors to add in a speech to their play that directly references the tyranical murder of his father by his father's brother.
Right.  That'll help.
So, when the actors tell your father/uncle/thing EXACTLY what you did, and he finds out that you think he killed your dad, and he knows he killed your dad, and he gets mad, and he has you killed, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THEN?
Apart from rotting in a grave, of course.
Okay, so let's think about what Hamlet Jr could have done to make it all better.
To start off with, he could have told his little guardy mates that they were being ridiculous, his dad was dead, and OBVIOUSLY ghosts don't exist.
Then, if that didn't happen, he could have just gone and chopped off his stepdad's head, rescued his mum and declared himself King Of Denmark.
OR given this Claudius bloke a piece of his own medicine and poured poison in his ear!!
NOT pretended to go mad.
If he wasn't already acting mad, I would debate whether or not he was going mad.
Clearly, he's got bats in the belfrey.
Okay, so now, having decided to go a bit mad (WHY HAMLET??? JUST GET YOUR BIG SWORD OUT, YOU MENTAL BLOKE!!), he goes and flashes the girl he's in love with AKA Ophelia.
Um.
Why?
Would it not just have been more sensible to, I don't know, danced around in jelly or something??
Equally mad, SO much less offensive.
He could have climbed a tree in the garden and sung christmas carols in June or something.
FLASHING WOMEN IS NOT THE WAY TO GO MAD.
Frankly, it's not mad, it's just a bit stupid.  Her dad could have had him killed for that.
My dad would have if I was Ophelia!!
Although, actually, if you think about it, he could have just gone to talk to his ma about the whole thing.
THAT would have him construed as a bit like a fruitcake, whether or not he actually saw a ghost.
In my honest and undying opinion, of which I have many about varying things here, Hamlet is going about this in entirely the wrong way.
To escape all the stress and such, get a horse, grab Ophelia and some cash, leg it to Switzerland.
They're neutral, will probably let you marry Ophelia, and then everything will be fine.
DUH.
Why didn't he think of that??

7 comments:

  1. So really, our overall point is for him to "get his big sword out?" Perhaps a wise move

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  2. Switzerland, nice place.

    But have You ever met a sane flasher? Maybe Hamlet's got a point there..


    But yeah, Switzerland :)

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  3. Well, the world according to Maddy. What a marvellous insight.

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  4. I think i agree with the whole Madness not really being the right way to go. He is kinda digging himself a hole...or a grave.

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  5. Varying degrees of mild homophobia and sporadic renewals of anti-misogyny made this post at most, readable.

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  6. Dear Joe.
    Fruitcake has nothing to do with gayness-nosity.
    Duh.

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  7. I know this might not be your thing, but discovered it once in the early hours of the morning, rather pleased with myself

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB9D34HVO2g

    :)

    this is one of my favourite "opinions" on a Shakespearian character like ever!

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