In class, we finally wrapped up studying Hamlet! While Ms. Holmes was gone, we watched this freaky version of the movie that gave me nightmares. Also, I thought the characters were donating blood when they were actually shooting up heroine, and that made me quite confused.
After Hamlet, we started reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which is like the untold story of Ros and Guil. After reading Hamlet so many times, I thought I had a good understanding of basically any interpretation of this play, but now we are learning about yet another point of view! I think it is interesting of Stoppard to adopt Shakespeare's line and develop a play around it. Stoppard probably uses the events he writes in his play to support his own theory of Hamlet. It really makes you conscious of all the characters in the play, and how their lives impact the story of Hamlet as well.
That hammer-hits-spike sound effect was, at the very least, traumatizing. Thanks, Ms. Holmes.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say Ros. & Guil. showed how the lives of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern impacted Hamlet (the play), because, from what I could gather, Stoppard didn't even give them lives outside of Hamlet. The first thing they remembered was being sent for, and the last thing that happened was their death. Stoppard even removes some of their importance in Hamlet when the players put on their own Hamlet play. In the play within the play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were two random people who got hung for the sake of having more dead bodies.
Noah Symanzik
Oh gosh that version of Hamlet scarred me for life! I thought it was a very interesting and rather disturbing interpretation. I don't think it really tells the story of Hamlet from a different perspective but is a story of its own within the context of Hamlet. I think its really cool how this play was based on a few lines in Hamlet! It seems like you have a sort of behind the scenes story of Hamlet. This story tells about all of the characters in Hamlet that weren't viewed as Hamlet: Ros, Guil, and the band of players. I thought it was awesome to read this play right after finishing our analysis of Hamlet.
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