The first thing that i notice is that hamlet is going to be hard to understand because of the complex language that is used. I had the same problem when i was reading Romeo and Juliet and i found that it really helps to read the book aloud in class where we can discuss meanings. One of the first things that puzzled my in this text is the third line, when Francisco says “Nay, Answer me and unfold yourself” and Barnardo says “Long live the king”. This does not seem like a logical response. Hamlet seems like a character who is very tired of life and angry at his mom even though he is so young. I think that the Ghost is a sign of Hamlet getting into power eventually, and death is going to occur to have him acheive that.
My text is a bad text, it excluded two very lengthy passages that were important to the story, it is very annoying. Ophelia seems like a person who is easily persuaded by other people into doing things she may not want to, like in the opening of 1.3 the conversation between Ophelia and Laertes, Laertes tells Ophelia that Hamlet probably does not actually love him, and Ophelia accepts this and does not disagree in any way. When Polonius comes in and gives his two cents on the situation he says very similar things to Laertes, that you shouldnt believe anything a man says in a lustful frame of mind. Ophelia has the same response of acceptance. When Hamlet and Horatio go looking for the Ghost, they have to wait until twelve until they see it appear. When it comes, Hamlet goes into this long speech about how he wants the ghost to answer him and why it is not. Horatio tells him that the ghost wants him to follow it and Hamlet does, and then it speaks. This is a very interesting part of the text, where Hamlet finds out that his father was murdered by his uncle rather than dying naturally.
One of the things that i noticed the most in this passage was when Hamlet was conversing with Horatio and Marcellus, and Hamlet says that time is out of joint and he was born to set it right, it made him look very self-centered, because he assumed the entire world was relying on him to fix all the problems. When Hamlet comes back from talking to the ghost, he seems very excited and as if he has a secret to keep from Horatio and Marecellus, and when he makes them swear not to tell on his sword he acts as if the world is resting on his shoulders.
The first scene, where Polonius tells Reynaldo to go to France and to question Danes living there as to the doings of Laertes and the legitimacy of said actions is actually quite telling as to the actual motives of Polonius to keep a watch on his son. When Polonius tells Reynaldo that hje can make up things about Laertes in order to find out things and to change peoples opinions it makes him seem ruthless. Polonius is a rather dumb character, i am not too sure wheat to think of him because i do not know who exactly he is in the movie, but he thinks he is a grand courtier with all the “art”. He dances around the point without ever making it. Gertrude and Claudius both are skeptical about the actual help that may be gotten from Polonius. Claudius and Gertrude both seem to express grief for the “madness” of hamlet. When Polonius reads the love letter from Hamlet to Ophelia he could have thought of many better methods of getting the same result but he decided the most heartless way.