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Hamlet response

To me reading the play Hamlet was an enjoyable experience. The play is set at Elisiner, the royal court of the king of Denmark. At the beginning of the play, the emotions are kind of dull and I really wasn’t expecting much action out of the play. Maybe another Grapes of Wrath kind of book. I became very intrigued thou as soon as Hamlet spoke with the ghost, Hamlet seems like a new man, he was all drooping around and now he act like he actually has a purpose in life. It is very unpredictable at that point; I started thinking could the ghost be a demon lying to Hamlet or is it really his father, could Hamlet be hallucinating, or maybe it is some kind of mass hysteria. The play gets a little deeper and interesting when we begin to learn more about the characters. The sidekick Polonius nosey tactics to find out information and you learn of Hamlets insanity scheme. The dense Ophelia who is so dazed and confused by the whole situation. Mostly all the important characters are introd...

Posted by: John Mayes

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