tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post2475873493301302930..comments2024-03-28T15:01:12.582+00:00Comments on The little white attic : Hamlet revisitedHai Di Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-67298915292442254102021-05-15T22:32:22.686+01:002021-05-15T22:32:22.686+01:00Anyway, to get back to it seriously: Gertrude isn&...Anyway, to get back to it seriously: Gertrude isn't part of the murder so it's not that bizarre that the ghost tells Hamlet to spare her. Claudius is the murderer as well as usurper. <br />Gertrude's only fault is presumably infidelity. Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-30306785245411494582021-05-15T22:14:49.772+01:002021-05-15T22:14:49.772+01:00HAHAHAHHAA you're sex-obsessed.HAHAHAHHAA you're sex-obsessed. Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-49028072117580748612021-05-15T15:23:30.872+01:002021-05-15T15:23:30.872+01:00Ah, I still haven't read Tanner's essay on...Ah, I still haven't read Tanner's essay on the play, cool that he broods on it too.<br />Yeah, I also think the Ghost still loves Gertrude despite what she's done to him, and she probably hasn't taken part in the murder of her husband therefore.<br />Claudius too seems to genuinely love her despite all his flaws, she sure knows how to inspire love to her lovers.<br />Perhaps it means she is particularly good in bed, but that's another topic lol.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601338941517473531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-74906486457860178182021-05-15T13:14:04.831+01:002021-05-15T13:14:04.831+01:00I don't have a theory, but Tony Tanner raises ...I don't have a theory, but Tony Tanner raises the same question and says that in a way the ghost already paralyses Hamlet, giving him conflicting tasks, telling him to be both an avenger and a Protestant, etc.<br />But maybe a simple answer is that the ghost still loves Gertrude in spite of her betrayal? Like the jealous wives who beat up the mistresses but do nothing to the husbands? No idea. Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-90811562826085460662021-05-15T08:44:48.968+01:002021-05-15T08:44:48.968+01:00Yeah, there were no words of affection or whatsoev...Yeah, there were no words of affection or whatsoever between the 2, so strange.<br />The Ghost talks more about duty and less about love in their encounter.<br />What bothers me the most with the Ghost is why he insists Gertrud to be spared despite her betrayal/cheating, but this is another debate lol. You have a theory on it?<br />Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601338941517473531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-1587644087792642342021-05-14T20:42:14.736+01:002021-05-14T20:42:14.736+01:00Oh you should reread it. I didn't get much out...Oh you should reread it. I didn't get much out of it in my first reading either.<br />Thanks for the compliment. As I've been reading a lot of Shakespeare lately, it's easy to notice that Ophelia doesn't have a female friend (or a mother) like many other female characters in the plays. Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-42708162145594236302021-05-14T20:39:51.649+01:002021-05-14T20:39:51.649+01:00Yeah Hamlet does compare the 2, but the actual mee...Yeah Hamlet does compare the 2, but the actual meeting with the father's ghost is still rather cold, don't you think so?<br />Also I think troubled family relationships are complicated, you may have a difficult relationship and still love them because that's your family (of course I don't mean estranged family members, that's different). Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-4216964274172793232021-05-14T19:03:29.769+01:002021-05-14T19:03:29.769+01:00Wow. I really need to reread Hamlet. I was in high...Wow. I really need to reread Hamlet. I was in high school last time I spent some time with it, and clearly it went way over my head. Your thoughts on Ophelia are really good--how Shakespeare's other heroines have another female to talk things over with and turn to for support, but Ophelia is all alone. Megan the Nutmeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13978560952822239158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-81267640278791721812021-05-14T17:05:48.322+01:002021-05-14T17:05:48.322+01:00Interesting theory about Hamlet not being able to ...Interesting theory about Hamlet not being able to grieve over his father's death, thus his inability to avenge him. <br />I had noticed he was more moved by an actor's pathetic story than by his own father death's, and how he reproached himself over his lack of emotion for his father in comparison.<br />But at the same time, doesn't Hamlet incessantly compare his father and his uncle, and talks very favourably of the former at the expense of the latter ?<br />But maybe admiration and love are two separate things, and this comparison is less a proof of his love for his father than his bitter disapproval of his mother's choice.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601338941517473531noreply@blogger.com