Blog #5 Hamlet

Wow poor Hamlet. This is awful. I cannot imagine this happening to me. He is a scholar at college and his dad is the King of Denmark one day and the next day his dad has died and his mom is to marry his father's brother. His uncle is a person that he did not even like in the family to begin with. I feel that Hamlet's madness although staged is real in many ways, he is suppose to kill his uncle to set free his fathers ghost ! That is a lot of pressure ! He is not a murderer and he has no idea how to do this act. GHOST: revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. HAMLET: Murder? GHOST: Murder most foul, as in the best it is... The serpent that did this thing now wears my crown! This revelation and the request of the ghost get revenge is overwhelming to a young college man. The feelings of anger and shame that he feels toward his mother coupled with the grief he is experiencing for his fathers passing is difficult and the reader is saddened for these events. This cannot end well... The Queen clearly married uncle Claudius to put on a front of stability for Denmark, but in doing so she hurt her son so badly.