Saturday, November 10, 2012

Hamlet: Response Journal; Act 1 scene 1-5

              The play makes me want to know how hamlet will handle the situation meeting the dead king hamlet. It made me alittle scared knowing that they met a ghost which is also king hamlet. Knowing how disgusted hamlet is with his mom's and uncle's marriage he listens to his father and decides to take revenge. I think this whole situation gets me alittle worried about what hamlet's actually going to do to his uncle but not his mother. It gives me goose bumps to know that hamlet has met his fathers ghost and wasn't afraid to see him.

               In my experience i think i was similar to prince hamlet that i would take revenge for my father who i love and not my mom who actually married my uncle even though its disgusting i would respect my mom and also take revenge as my father has said.
               In some ways i feel alittle selfish just like king Claudius, he only wants fame, money, and all lavish things he wanted. I feel the same at some points when i want something and i dont get it i feel greedy.
              My experience of being Horatio and Marcellus feeling scared and wanting to just mean it as a dream. I've had experiences like that where i saw weird things and decided to tell someone about what i saw and make them believe like Horatio did when Marcellus and Bernardo told him about the ghost. No one belived me but once they saw it they too believed. I have similar experiences.

           I would say his language is very difficult to understand according to me but i like the way he put things in a very dramatic way and how he actually made me feel i was there in the scene. His use of old english is very different like; 'tis' used for someother things. His scences are really connecting with each other and the way he puts things in the scence.

           I dont understand what things mean in specific scences like the time when Hamlet talks to himself after his uncle's and mom's marriage. Every time the guards see the ghost i get confused how they're reacting to the situation.

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