Hamlet

Technically, I read Hamlet once before. But last time I read it was in early summer of 2008, so I was a little... sick and I didn't really absorb any of it. While I recognized the general plot and a few lines, I really felt as if I was reading it for the first time.

And I must say, I think Hamlet is my new favorite Shakespeare play, just beating out Merchant of Venice. Was the lapse out of iambic pentameter a way of indicating Hamlet's madness? I thought so, but I suppose I'll have to ask my teacher or something, as I'm not positive.

I really loved all of the foils in the play- how Laertes and Fortinbras were foils to Hamlet, and how Polonius's family was a foil to Hamlet's family. I love contrasts and paralels and fun stuff like that :)

I don't get why Ophelia has been the inspiration for so many books/essays/movies. I understand that her character was tragic and stuff, and that she lacked independence, but why the huge preoccupation with her? I've read two essay collections with "Ophelia" in the title.

Is the reader supposed to dislike Claudius? Really, I didn't have a problem nwith him. While he was a murderer and married Gertrude even though it was kind of incest, I was repulsed or annoyed by him at all.

Wow, this is really disroganized. And I used the word "stuff" twice. But I am lazy. So this is as good as it's going to get.

Total Book Count: 27
NonFic: 14 (52%)