Hamlet

First of all, let me just say that this was an awesome play. This has been the fifth Shakespeare play that I have read and it was great. This book just made me think that I wasted a lot of time with all those other Shakespeare plays when the best one was still waiting for me. My favorite part of the play was when Hamlet tells the players to do the play about how Claudius killed his father and married his mother. That part made me laugh so much because I would have done the same exact thing. It was like Claudius thought that Hamlet would never find out the truth and everything would be okay. My least favorite part was the ending. I thought that the whole fencing thing and the poison was a really bad way to end the play. What they needed was a fighting scene with real swords and somebody needed to get stabbed. I also did not like how Hamlet told Claudius to drink the poison because obviously he does not want to die, and the sad part was that Claudius obeyed. Some themes that jumped out at me were death, the supernatural, and dysfunctional family. Death surrounded the entire plot of the story. First, Hamlet sees his father's ghost and the whole story revolved around people dying and people killing other people. Second, the supernatural was very important because of the ghost and how it talks about its death. Lastly, the dysfunctional family can be applied throughout the entire play. Claudius killed Hamlet's father and married Hamlet's mother, which screams dysfunctional family to me because it is incest! Also, Denmark can be a dysfunctional family as well because of the king and queen that rule and all the corruption they have caused.

About Me

I am an 11th grade student that is preparing to take AP English Literature this year. The stories consist of prose fiction, drama, and poetry. After each book, I will post a book review about what I thought. Please leave comments and your opinions!!!!!!!!