WHAT
The funniest thing I've read all week, courtesy of my cousin, who got it from her professor, who got it from God knows where:
AN UNWEEDED GARDEN
by Michael F. LaGory
(Compiled from Student Essays on Hamlet, 1975-1991)
At the start of the play the mood changes. The air on the guard platform is crispy. A ghost appears, but he is forbidden to tell Hamlet about his morbid lifestyle.
Hamlet decides to act madly. He gets in an antic position. Polonius finds him manually walking. He tells Rosencrantz and Guildernstern that Fortune is a trumpet. Later the Prince will unleash his true colors. A mental and physical character, Hamlet uses his mental powers intellectually. His nature leads him to different places. Bedraggled by suspicion and uncertainty, his "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt" soliloquy unfolds the petals of his blooming character. Alone, he wonders whether to be or to not be. He gets psyched out by the thoughts of death, and thinks real philosophical thoughts, mentality-wise. For instance, death is a tragedy and it's not worth giving your life for. Dying is something one does not do every day. Everyone hopes to possess the quality of reason. Thinking greatly influenced success or failure in life. But mental retardity is a universal flaw of all human beings.
Ophelia is lower class. She is a real airhead. Polonius and Laertes feed negative input into her mind. Polonius, the Lord Chambermaid, wants Ophelia to put her relationship on hold. She tells Hamlet she can't go out with him anymore. Her father uses underminded tactics. He wants to gather data on the Prince. So she reports her impressions as an obedient daughter of Hamlet. With "doublet all unbraced," Ophelia speaks to Hamlet, and finds him strangely excited. In those times women's place was in the kitchen. That's why Ophelia didn't get a job, like in our society today. We can infer that Hamlet and Ophelia conceived an illegitimate child by reading between the lines. In the end she drowns to death.
Hamlet has a thing for his mother. He has an edible complex. Gertrude is an obvious woman. She is one of the most unfaithful wives of all time. However, she is not at the mercy of her brain. When Polonius enters Gertrude the Queen is bored and asks for "More matter and less art." Her son accuses her of incense. Hamlet finally comes out of the closet with Polonius, after reaching an understanding with the Queen.
We also learn about the characters of Claudius. His downfall begins to arise when an uprising led by Laertes befalls him. Laertes is consumed by a thirst for revenge. In the graveshift scene Hamlet talks to Yorick and speculates the type of person once existed in the skull. The Gravedigger's pronunciation examplifies his unlearnedness.
It is fitting that Hamlet should die when his life comes to an end. Another tragic hero, Oedipus, forces out his eyes and condoms himself. Horatio speaks a eulogy to the Great Dane.
Shakespeare uses phrases throughout the play. He writes in pyrrhic monometer. He wrote all his books in Old English so they would be hard to understand but more artistic. He quotes a lot of famous sayings, like "Something's rotten in Denmark" and "To thine own self be true."
T. S. Eliot wrote an essay about Shakespeare's novel. He could not find Hamlet convincing, so Shakespeare revised the original comedy by Thomas Kyd. Eliot offered ideas which Shakespeare should have done, but Shakespeare didn't use them. His final advise to the reader is to understand things which Shakespeare didn't understand himself.
Iolani School
Honolulu, Hawaii
C-cannot...stop...laughing...
AN UNWEEDED GARDEN
by Michael F. LaGory
(Compiled from Student Essays on Hamlet, 1975-1991)
At the start of the play the mood changes. The air on the guard platform is crispy. A ghost appears, but he is forbidden to tell Hamlet about his morbid lifestyle.
Hamlet decides to act madly. He gets in an antic position. Polonius finds him manually walking. He tells Rosencrantz and Guildernstern that Fortune is a trumpet. Later the Prince will unleash his true colors. A mental and physical character, Hamlet uses his mental powers intellectually. His nature leads him to different places. Bedraggled by suspicion and uncertainty, his "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt" soliloquy unfolds the petals of his blooming character. Alone, he wonders whether to be or to not be. He gets psyched out by the thoughts of death, and thinks real philosophical thoughts, mentality-wise. For instance, death is a tragedy and it's not worth giving your life for. Dying is something one does not do every day. Everyone hopes to possess the quality of reason. Thinking greatly influenced success or failure in life. But mental retardity is a universal flaw of all human beings.
Ophelia is lower class. She is a real airhead. Polonius and Laertes feed negative input into her mind. Polonius, the Lord Chambermaid, wants Ophelia to put her relationship on hold. She tells Hamlet she can't go out with him anymore. Her father uses underminded tactics. He wants to gather data on the Prince. So she reports her impressions as an obedient daughter of Hamlet. With "doublet all unbraced," Ophelia speaks to Hamlet, and finds him strangely excited. In those times women's place was in the kitchen. That's why Ophelia didn't get a job, like in our society today. We can infer that Hamlet and Ophelia conceived an illegitimate child by reading between the lines. In the end she drowns to death.
Hamlet has a thing for his mother. He has an edible complex. Gertrude is an obvious woman. She is one of the most unfaithful wives of all time. However, she is not at the mercy of her brain. When Polonius enters Gertrude the Queen is bored and asks for "More matter and less art." Her son accuses her of incense. Hamlet finally comes out of the closet with Polonius, after reaching an understanding with the Queen.
We also learn about the characters of Claudius. His downfall begins to arise when an uprising led by Laertes befalls him. Laertes is consumed by a thirst for revenge. In the graveshift scene Hamlet talks to Yorick and speculates the type of person once existed in the skull. The Gravedigger's pronunciation examplifies his unlearnedness.
It is fitting that Hamlet should die when his life comes to an end. Another tragic hero, Oedipus, forces out his eyes and condoms himself. Horatio speaks a eulogy to the Great Dane.
Shakespeare uses phrases throughout the play. He writes in pyrrhic monometer. He wrote all his books in Old English so they would be hard to understand but more artistic. He quotes a lot of famous sayings, like "Something's rotten in Denmark" and "To thine own self be true."
T. S. Eliot wrote an essay about Shakespeare's novel. He could not find Hamlet convincing, so Shakespeare revised the original comedy by Thomas Kyd. Eliot offered ideas which Shakespeare should have done, but Shakespeare didn't use them. His final advise to the reader is to understand things which Shakespeare didn't understand himself.
Iolani School
Honolulu, Hawaii
C-cannot...stop...laughing...