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Hamlet, but more woke
In the play, Hamlet, William Shakespeare crafts the character Polonius to be one the just babbles endlessly and makes those he is talking to lose interest. He creates a dry humor to the play with how unnecessary his conversation tends to be. This makes it ironic that the my favorite quote from the play is a quote from him, and that is “This above all: to thine own self be true”.
What does it mean to be true to yourself?
To be true is to be kind. Rather than being over-analytical and judgmental, reflect on your flaws and love them for reminding you that you always have room to improve. Use them as motivation to grow into the individual you are meant to be. Be kind to everyone and everything around you, because they are you, you are them, and we are everything. Ask how everyone’s day was and listen to their response. Provide open arms to anyone who may need them. Once you do this, you will notice that you will receive the same love in return, though if someone does not treat you right, it should not stop you from emitting love and positivity.
To be true is honor your passions. Those around you may try to push you in different directions, but you must continue on your path to your own greatness. The one person who knows what is best for you is you, as long as you are kind to yourself. Do what makes you feel like blasting music and dancing through your house naked. Do what makes you feel like a deep breath of fresh forest air. Do what makes your soul feel right.
To be true is to grow. Push yourself to broaden your perspective. Learn more about that thing you know you’ve been interested in. Take time to talk to someone that you disagree with, and try to realize why they feel that way. Realize your areas that need improving and improve them. Learn to master your mind, your body, and your spirit.
To be true is to be apologetically yourself. Wear what makes you happy. Have wild hair. Wing your liner over your bright green eye shadow if you want to. Dance in front of a room of strangers the same way you would if you were alone. Sing your favorite song at the top of your lungs no matter who is listening. Tell people you think their freckles are cute, or that their jacket is cool, or that their energy feels like home, or that they make you feel the way reggae music makes you feel. Laugh until you have tears streaming down your face and there’s not even laugh noises coming out anymore, just a series or snorts really loud inhales.
To thine own self be true, but your BEST self. Remember you are just as able to achieve greatness as everyone else.
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Hamlet, but even more mentally unstable
I was looking at some other people’s blog post about their thoughts on the play, and I came across a post about Ophelia‘s mental condition. As I was reading it, I had a kind like a director’s epiphany or something. But what if every other character in the play acted to portray deterioration of their mental status from the beginning of the play? Think about it:
-Hamlet begins by pretending that he is losing his mind, but soon slowly looses his grip on reality spurred by grief.
-Gertrude was never completely guilt free when she married her dead husband’s brother. After the play within a play, her guilt grows even stronger and she goes downhill quickly, loosing grip on reality and what is okay and what is not and what is real and what is not. She cannot tell if the ghost Hamlet speaks to in her chambers is in his imagination or hers.
-Claudius slips away from the guilt of “a brother’s murder,” and the fear of both earthly and spiritual retribution.
-Laertes thinks he escaped the prison of Denmark only to be constantly yanked back to it. The grief of losing his father and his sister as brutally as it was brings him extreme ptsd.
-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern get to the point where they cannot tell themselves apart from each other, don’t know who their friends are, are not sure if trust is real. They know they won’t come back from England.
-Polonius wasn’t really there to begin with, but I guess he could get a little more crazy? I don’t know
So in essence Hamlet becomes a play about HORATIO WATCHING EVERYONE AROUND HIM, EVERYONE HE CARES FOR, SLOWLY GO INSANE.
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Hamlet, but gayer
As my journey of reading Hamlet comes to an end, I have come to the conclusion that Hamlet is indeed very gay. The boy set off my gaydar way too many times throughout the play for him to not be a flaming homosexual.
So without further ado, here is my interpretation of the play:
-Ophelia is in love with Hamlet. The way Hamlet feels about Ophelia can go one of three ways:
1) Hamlet had been in a romantic relationship with Ophelia and did love her, but he always felt like this love wasn’t a romantic kind of love. He didn’t realize he was actually gay until later in the relationship, and when he had this realization, he cut things off.
2) Hamlet and Ophelia were best friends. He always had a deep love for her, but it was nothing more than a platonic love.
3) Hamlet always secretly knew he was gay, but used Ophelia as a cover-up for years. He did still love her platonically, though. He eventually cut things off.
Nonetheless, Hamlet did love her, and they did have a genuine relationship (kinda)
-Ophelia’s mental health doesn’t start deteriorating after Polonius dies, it actually begins to deteriorate before the play even starts. She becomes obsessive over Hamlet, to the point where he feels the need to reject her. When Hamlet says, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum,” he is talking about when they still had a relationship because he did have an intense love for her, just not a romantic one.
-Horatio is also secretly gay and Hamlet and Horatio are in love. This is why they’re so close and why Horatio was so willing to kill himself when Hamlet got poisoned.
-Yorick was someone Hamlet had been intimate with. I feel as if they had a strong relationship by Hamlet stating that “He hath borne me on his back a thousand times,” but I feel like this is a figurative statement; as in Yorick had dealt with Hamlet a thousand times. Hamlet also states how “ those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.”
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