Hamlet Deaths

Hamlet is an interesting play. And the first two people to die in the play are the two people that might as well be the most harmless characters in the play. These two characters are Ophelia and Polonius. Polonius had died by Hamlets hand. This was because he had hid in Gertrude’s room and Hamlet had been paranoid. Hamlet then proceeds to stab Polonius. Though it was while Polonius was hiding, and Hamlet had thought it was the king. Although Ophelia’s death had been worse than what had happened to her father Polonius. What the Queen, Gertrude, had said about her death was that she was sitting on a branch and had fell off of the branch into water and she had not tried to save herself by swimming away, or up for that matter. These two deaths were a tragedy, but Ophelia went crazy right before she had “killed herself”. Though these are not the only deaths that are going to happen within this play they are the deaths that set the tone for later on in the play. Ophelia’s death probably would not have happened if Polonius was not dead. She only went crazy because of her death. These deaths though tragic they are needed for the play.

Blogging

This year for English class we have to write a blog. At first I was very unexcited about this project but now later through the year I am happy that I get to do this. I just thought about how I can write about anything I really want on this blog, well within the limits of the blog project itself. I can also get feedback from people all over the world. I have been thinking about what else I can write about on this blog though I already have another blog, The Hooded Figure, that is a continuation of my series “Jandar’s Tale”. Although I have only written one post on this blog I will be working more diligently to keep this blog updated. I also like having this blog because it makes me think more about my writing and how I fair with different writing styles. My two blogs have been fun to post on, and I like just to put out some random things on them most of the time. I actually wonder if anyone reads my blogs or just kind of skims them than goes on to another better written blog. Hmm I will never know.

College

I know that there are so many people out there that are going through the same things that I am going through. These things include: worrying about what you are going to do with the rest of their life or what is going to do with the rest of your life or where you are going to college. Over the weekend I had taken the ACT and I feel pretty good about my score, though when I get the score I will have no idea what I should do with them. I mean I know I send them to the college I want to go to, but I don’t know where I want to go to school. Before today I had a plan of what I was going to do, but as the days pass I get more and more worried if I can’t go through with it. I really want to become a doctor, but I don’t want to have to go through all the things they do within their job. Which is why I think I am going to get my doctorate in medicine, but work as a nurse. If you are reading this it may sound a little weird to you though I am just kind of writing about what is on my mind right now. Thank you for your time and have a good day.

Hamlet Act 3

In any tragedy play of Shakespeare’s in act three is always the first scene where someone will first die. In his play Hamlet he does not disappoint. In act three Polonius was the first to die. He was killed by Hamlet because Hamlet had thought that the person snooping behind the curtain was Claudius, the new king, but to his surprise it was not. Hamlet had only seconds before saw Claudius, and was contemplating killing him right there. The reason that Hamlet had not killed Claudius right then is because he was repenting for all of his previous sins that he committed and hamlet did not want to send him to heaven of to a good place. Though it was ironic how right after Hamlet left Claudius had redacted all of the things he had confessed. With this death Hamlet and his mother had grown closer because his mother knows what he is going to do and she has come to terms with it in a sense. Although this death has started what seems to be a very bad time for all of the people that are living in the castle, and if all those people who keep talking about hamlet to me are truthful everyone will die except Horatio.

Break

The break was a good time for me, I had gotten a bunch of stuff that I wanted to get done completed. With this break I used my time to get more organized for the remainder of the year. I had also gotten all of my assignments done, gotten ready for college in mind and organization I had spent some time contemplating what I was going to do with my life. I had also gotten ready for the act. With all of the things that are going on. I took one or two days to relax my brain and not think about anything just to have fun and be a “kid”. With all that is coming up in life it is important for me to be organized which is why I am glad that I had spent this time to achieve organization in my academic and home life.  I can now be more successful in both the upcoming quarter and years to come in my life. I liked that we had this little splurged break though I am glad to be back in school. I am now ready for what is to come as well and even though it may be sad I can face and overcome this to go to college.

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2 Analysis

In his play “Hamlet”, William Shakespeare had implied that although distress and despair can come in many forms, it can ultimately lead to suicide or hardships throughout the rest of one’s life. This theme is the most prevalent through the speech that Hamlet gives in Act 1 Scene 3. In this scene Hamlet describes things that he finds to be troublesome and disgraceful towards the king. These things include how quickly his uncle and mother married, and how no one besides Hamlet is mourning over his father’s recent death. These two things are very well discussed throughout this soliloquy.           

To describe this he uses the emotion of Hamlet’s father’s death to help set the tone of Hamlet’s personality through the play. In this soliloquy Hamlet describes his feelings toward what his uncle and mother have done. To describe this he uses the phrases “But two months dead- nay, not so much, not two-“and “ Would have mourn’d longer- married with my uncle”. These two quotes show how emotional Hamlet is getting while his uncle and mother do these terrible deeds. These quotes also help to set the scene that no one besides Hamlet is still mourning due to the recent marriage within his family. These two points help out in describing Hamlet’s general feelings throughout the play. Finally they also help Hamlet build up his hatred for his uncle, but all together these terrible deeds force Hamlet to consider if death is the easiest way out of this horrific situation. With the thought of “self-slaughter” Hamlet must find a way to calm down. With all of the backstabbing from Hamlet’s family it might seem to be the easiest way for Hamlet to end these terrible deeds from happening, but he later finds that it was a good choice to not follow through with this plan.        

This theme of “distress and despair can come in many forms, but it can ultimately lead to suicide or hardships throughout the rest of a life” can describe Hamlets attitude through most of the play. 

My Identity

Identity is what people can perceive a general conception of a person, whether or not that conception has good intent or bad intent is dependent on the persons actions, and how the person speaks. Identity someone might see themselves differently than someone else perception of you.

To me my identity means a lot. This is because I do not want to be perceived in a certain way or to be perceived in a way that makes both me and my family look bad. Since I think my identity is all about how I act I try to do things that some people will not dare to do within a certain reason. One way that I have been perceived  is to have a lot of courage and be helpful to people who are in need. I know that some people have perceived me to have courage because whenever my friends are too scared to say, ask or do something, and if it is within reason I will do it. I have also found that people think this of me because of all the dancing I do in front of the whole school. The reason why I do dance in front of the whole school is because I think dancing is fun, and while I am dancing I go into my own world. Another way that I have been perceived as or least think that I have is being the “fun” person in the group or one of the most likable because I have such a wide range of interests. A reason that i think I can be perceived as this type of person is because of a trip I had taken with my church. At the beginning of this trip i had not really known anyone then at the end of the trip everyone was telling me that they had a really good time and they thought I had been really fun to hang out with for a week. I do not always see how i am this fun person, but I guess some people have influenced my identity.

These are the reasons that I think these are ways that I have been perceived. I also think that most of these perceptions have came from how someone has influenced me. I used to be a shy kid until I went to school for the first time. Then I had become more social and social throughout the years. With my dancing I used to not dance very often, but one school dance I had seen my brother dancing, so the image of us being twins and being similar had given me the boost to dance as well. I guess most of my Identity has come from my brother either me trying not to be like him in some senses or trying to be similar to him in others.