Wham Bam Thank You Ham

I enjoyed reading Hamlet, mostly because I read out loud and did fun voices and got to swear, but it was a good read and had some interesting points. 

I really fell in love with Ophelia, like I understand that suicide is never the answer bla bla bla. But how cool, your ex boyfriend thinks he’s all edgy talking about killing himself but he’s too much of a pu- wait. Too much of a wimp! To do it himself! And Ophelia is like you know what! I’m gonna do it! She was so brave and she didn’t need a man controlling her anymore. Not her father, not her brother, and sure as heck not Hamlet. It teaches how being constantly controlled (by a man, government or even a lover) is no way to live a life but she didn’t just kill herself to be free from the chains, she killed herself as an act of defiance and protest of the situation she was in, and many other people are in. This doesn’t teach ah yes your life is hard? Commit suicide. But more so it teaches to act when a situation has risen and in her time it was illegal to commit suicide, it fit for her to do that. She had one last horrah and it was her decision and she followed through. Speaking of following through, Hamlet was all talk. Now I’m not gonna bash too much on Ham here because I also liked him and I related to him cuz I’m also all talk, I rarely follow through, and I pretend I’m emo and edgy but I’m really a baby. Any how Hamlet constantly planning and talking out his revenge plan is his whole downfall, it really teaches how you have to act before it’s too late. It could be as subtle as telling the boy you like him before he moves away to being a pretty big deal like killing your uncle. It is also very frustrating because Hamlet is obviously smart and cunning. With his jabs at various characters (Polonius) and his quick thinking when he was sent off to England. Even though Hamlet is so smart he was not wise. When his opportunity arose to kill his uncle he did not take it because his uncle was asking for forgiveness, but if Hamlet would have just waiting a little longer he would have heard his uncle say that he doesn’t feel it in his soul. But alas the play would have been over and there would be no lesson to be had if Hamlet were actually smart.