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Now that the dust has settled, what does /lit/ think of Hamlet, both the play and character? What did Shakespeare mean by this play when he wrote it?

>> No.12737264
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>reading novelizations of movies
I shiggy diggy

>> No.12737573

>>12737252
I think he is literally me.

>> No.12737842 [DELETED] 

>>12737264
Great film, very faithful to the play but ruined by all the niggers thrown in for no reason. Also Winslet of ophelia was shite

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I sometimes think that Hamlet's reluctance to kill Claudius, which seems to have no reason behind it at all, makes him one of the most realistic characters ever.

I mean, don't we all occasionally have things we have to do, and need to do, and even want to do, but we don't do them? It's like a force we can't explain holds us back, something that makes us slow and sluggish. Scholars keep hunting around for a motive behind Hamlet taking so long to kill Claudius, but what if there is no motive? What if he just feels stuck, and can't move forward, and dithers? Isn't that a very realistic thing for a person to do in Hamlet's situation?

>> No.12738179

>>12738122
So what you're saying is that Hamlet is like a student procrastinating on his assignments or projects, making excuses not only to us but to himself on why he's not doing the work that he needs to do? Man, you've just made him sound more relatable and human to me than any of my teachers did back in my English courses.

>> No.12738191

>>12737842
>no reason
The reason is that the west is pluralistic so it makes sense for our greatest accomplishments in the arts to include black people as well as whites

>> No.12738584

>>12737264
That was one of the worst adaptations of Hamlet, the person who played him was the least Hamlet Hamlet ever

>> No.12738701

>>12738584
Which one is the best adaptation, in your opinion?

>> No.12738720

>>12738122
That was Olivier's interpretation, that Hamlet is just indecisive

>> No.12738730

>>12738701
Shakespeare's