A teacher forced blog

Overall Hamlet was an engaging piece of literature I'm glad that my teacher had us read it and spend so much time with it. I appreciate the way he presented hamlet to us, as “a lot of people think that this is one of the best pieces of literature ever written, but you don’t have to agree, I don’t even know if I agree”. He had us go in already questioning how great this play really is, which in turn had us focusing more on what we were reading and trying to understand it. Hamlet was not in my opinion one of the best pieces of literature ever written but it was definitely one of the first plays that Shakespeare did that I genuinely enjoyed. But me feeling this way may be because I am a teenager in high school and Hamlet sounded in multiple instances like a stressed out teen in high school/college. I also really enjoyed seeing all of the different renditions of hamlet and comparing all of the different things the directors took creative liberty on and how each one was able to do the...

So a little while ago my friends introduced me to the musical Things To Ruin it has a whole butt load of good bops. My favorite one is "a son of a gun" because it is really catchy and has some cool figurative language that makes me think of it as more of a poem that someone just put some music to, than just a catchy song. The lyrics   “About a guy whose hand's a hook, guy whose hand's a hook, guy whose hand's a hoo-oo-ook And he's got blood on all his shirts, blood on all his shirts, blood on all his shir-ir-irts Cause everything he feels he hurts,” I enjoy this lyric because it’s a story that has two different meanings the literal where he could actually have a hook for a hand and he ends up accidently hurting most of the things he touches which is tragic but very interesting to me. The figurative language of everything that he likes/loves he kills or ruins which is a fear of mine but hearing it put with upbeat and bopy music makes it all seem much less scar...

   I know this is probably an unpopular opinion but the ending to Hamlet with the death of the King, Queen, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Laertes, and Hamlet felt to abrupt. I wish that the deaths could have been more individualized instead of all grouped together at the same time. I wanted to hear more about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern actually died. I also feel like Laertes death was unnecessary the only wrong that he did was plan hamlets murder but that was revenge/justice for the deaths of Ophelia and Polonius that Hamlet caused leaving Laertes alone with no close family, and Laertes didn’t even plan hamlets murder all on his own Claudius was pushing him towards it the whole time. Also I did not enjoy that Hamlet left Horatio to clean up his mess, out of all the unnecessary deaths that happened in that scene Horatio should have been able to join in if he really wanted to.  

Act 4 scene 5 In this scene Ophelia walks in to the room crazed looking, she instantly throws everyone aback at her appearance. Which makes you instantly pity her and made me prepare myself for however she decides to act or anything she’s about to say, to be completely jibersh. The next thing she does is she starts to sing songs that they all know but she mixes up the words and everyone knows she’s not singing it right. I think that was Ophelias way of saying how she feels about everything that has happened to her recently. She refers at one point to the situation with her and Hamlet and cries, and later in the song she gets it messed up and ends up taking about her her father’s death and how it was not handled correctly. I really enjoyed this scene. I liked seeing some more of Ophelia’s character development.