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Turning Point

In the Act 3 scene 2 Hamlet is finally able to confirm the Ghost’s words about his father’s murder. He put on a play that looked like the death of his father and watched the reaction of the present king. He also asked his friend Horatio to confirm the reaction that he had noticed. Therefore, now Hamlet has his answers and he might start putting his revenge plan together. Moreover, after the play Hamlet has a significant conversation with his former friend Guildenstern.

Before this scene, the king had asked Guildenstern and Rosencrantz to spy on Hamlet and to find whether he is planning anything against him. They were supposed to be friends from collage and Hamlet was fond of them. However, after the conversation the readers might see that Hamlet suspected them all along. Shakespeare uses the image of some pipe instrument to show that Hamlet knows how much his friends lied to him to please the king. Hamlet asks Guildenstern to play on the pipe for him, but Guildenstern refuses because he cannot. However, Hamlet says that he did not know how to play a spy on Hamlet, but he still did.

Also, this scene is important because Hamlet’s play is revealed and that the spies might realize that Hamlet had been acting insane for a specific purpose. This scene is important for the play since this is a turning point from theory to action. After this action Hamlet is going to start forming a play for the revenge that will lead to multiple deaths at the end of the play.

In play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the author includes an important scene 3.1 of Hamlet and Ophelia. In this scene he describes the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia. Hamlet is being very forceful and harsh on her. Since it is known that Hamlet is very close to a women hater, in this scene his reasons are revealed. Hamlet is very angry with his mother because she got remarried too fast to a murderer of her husband. Even before Hamlet meets the ghost he is very frustrated with his mom’s actions. Therefore, in this scene Hamlet is expressing his anger on Ophelia since she is a young woman.

Also, we might consider that Hamlet was in love with Ophelia at some point before his plan. After his emotional speech about suicide he meets a girl who somehow rejected him, so he is probably angry with her for that action. Probably he thinks that since she did not say yes to him then she should not say yes to anybody else, so he sends her to the nunnery.

Moreover, he is frustrated with the “rotten state of Denmark”, so he wants at least something to be clear and pure of corruption. Therefore, he approaches her with fury of his disrupted mind.

To rest!

“To sleep, to die” these meanings are so close. What is that makes us think that death is sleep. Through life people wonder what is to be dead. Do we just disappear? Will we become spirits? What are we going to do to see in the other life? But what if people don’t believe in life after death? What if it is just nothing? Just a long-long sleep, but with no dreams to see?

The question of life and death is as lusting as the existence. We always wonder what is to come. We fear death. However, death is just a part of living. It is our end to come. If to consider death just sleeping, it does not look too scary. With the long years of heavy life, work, worries death is just a relive. People finally have a chance to rest. Death is not something we should fear.

Even Hamlet in his speech thinks about dieing as sleeping, slipping away from all the unfairness of life. However, suicide is a bad way to end life. It is unnatural for a person to kill himself. Death is going to come anyway, then why hurry it? If death is sleep then life is dream for death. To live is to collect the dreams to have in sleep of death.

Repetition

In the Act 1 scene 1 Shakespeare uses repetition to show the emotion. Repetition is a tool used to emphasize something that is important for readers’ attention. When Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo see the ghost for the first time, they want it to speak. In line 51 Horatio says: “Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!” They come to the conclusion that the ghost looks like their dead king. They want to make the ghost to speak, but ghost stays silent.

By repeating the word “speak” three times in a row, Shakespeare wants readers to pay attention to the emotion with which the person is saying it. Each time the word has to be pronounced with a different intonation. Such intonation leads readers to the conclusion of desperation and fear that Horatio experiences by talking to the ghost. Shakespeare emphasizes that the ghost is an important figure in the play and that the information it carries is very significant to the characters.

Hamlet's certainty

Act 1, scene 4 in the play “Hamlet” is recognized like the only scene in which Hamlet is sure about his actions to follow the ghost. As we know Hamlet is still in mourning for his father, so his certain reaction could be evidence that he misses his father. Hamlet is lost in the assuming of what could actually happen to his father. He does not believe that his father died accidentally; therefore, the appearance of his father’s ghost may lead him to find the truth. In the line 45 Hamlet says: “King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me!” Hamlet is convinced that the ghost is his father. Hamlet is seeking for the answers to his questions, and the ghost is the one who can give them to Hamlet.

The other reason could be Hamlet’s contradictoriness because of his youth. In lines 63 and 64: “But do not go with it…No, by no means.”, Horatio and Marcellus are trying to convince Hamlet not to follow the ghost. However, Hamlet still follows him. It could be that Hamlet just goes against the words of his friends. He does not want to follow anybody’s orders, so he does what he is told in total reverse.

The Messanger!

We have been studying sonnets for a few days in the class. We looked at the very first structure of a sonnet and how it was changed by Shakespeare. As well as poets before Shakespeare, he wrote love sonnets; however, the love he was describing differed from love the poets before him wrote about. Shakespeare wrote about love in friendship. Even though many people think that he wrote to a gay boyfriend, I think that he was just writing about a friendship love to a friend. There is nothing wrong with being close to a friend in a nonphysical way. If it is okay for girls to talk about love each other, why should it be different for boys, for friendship is equal to both genders?

Shakespeare’s sonnets are a beautiful creation of poetry. They contain a lot of information about romance and beauty itself. Shakespeare had a gift of making thing look different then they appear for real. His use of metaphors and similes make any poet nowadays jealous. In a short sonnet of 14 lines Shakespeare could include up to 3 metaphors, which can be recognized only with a close look at them. Interpretation of Shakespeare’s work can take ours and you still won’t be able to get it without help. The language he uses is his own creation which can’t be compared to anybody else.

Out of all the sonnets, at which we looked in the class, I like the most is sonnet 73. In my opinion this sonnet talks about appreciation of what you have, for when you loose it, you miss it the most. The idea Shakespeare followed wasn’t just about telling the boy he liked him, but it had a message for every person who would be able to see it. As well as any other poem, Shakespeare’s sonnets can be interpreted in different ways and also might contain a different message. It depends on where you are in this life and where you are going with emotional world.