Journal 28
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 12:18
Well, I think this act has "The End is Near" written all over it. Orphelia has already kicked the bucket, and I don't think she will be the last. And I really don't know how well this duel that they have set will work either. The plan is only to kill Hamlet, but I don't see only one more person dying before this play concludes. Everything in this play seems to be narrowing down, as one by one characters are eliminated. And I also don't know how this attack on "Poland" will turn out. I have a feeling that they aren't planning on just passing through Denmark. I think that this act really gives a kind of lull before a horrid, stormy ending, and the forecast only shows that there will be bodies littered all over the stage before this ends.
a dark and stormy ending
hah yes it does seem the clean up crew for this play will have their hands full. all the characters are, or at least the ones that count, have a bloodrage gleaming in their eyes and the end of this act certainly doesnt give much hope. im gonna be a geek and quote ghandi "an eye for an eye will make us all blind" and i thinks theres going to be a lot of white canes at the end of this play.
Poor Denmark
Denmark as a whole seems trapped in this disaster. The country is at war and the royalty is in shambles. The "stormy ending" seems right because nothing good is going on in Denmark.
Ryan K Bishop
Yeah... about that duel.
"Let's play with poisoned blades and have a poison drink sitting around. Because that's a sure fire way to not kill anybody but Hamlet." For a King so cunning and with such previous experience, Claudius isn't really at his best when it comes to killing Hamlet. seriously. blades switch hands. notes go awry. come one, king, figure it out.
Erin Kay Schulz