Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

To live or not to live, that is the question. Whether it is more honourable to suffer the onslaught of misfortune, or to take action against the mass of troubles, which might bring them to an end. to die-to rest, thats it; and by sleep i mean to end the heartache and the shocks (or…

Act 5 Scene 1: In the churchyard two gravediggers talk while they are digging Ophelia’s grave. They are arguing about whether she should receive a christian burial because it seems like she has killed herself. According to the burial rules at the the time if you commited suicide you were not able to receive a…

Act 4 scene 6: In some other part of the castle introduced to a pair of sailors, who have brought him a letter from Hamlet to him. In the letter hamlet says that the ship he was in was captured by pirates as it was too slow. The pirates have returned to Denmark with hamlet…

To start off I will talk about the style that this book is written in. Vernon God Little uses dark humour as well as using satirical language and irony. Some of the language used in this book is quite crude. It is a narrative: this narrative uses slang and some words have purposefully been changed…

Act 4 Scene 1: After the conversation with Hamlet, Gertrude hurries to Claudius, who is talking with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. She asks to speak alone, so both of hamlets friends leave. When both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern exit she tells Claudius about the encounter that she had with Hamlet. She says that he is as mad…

In the queens bedroom, both the queen and polonius are waiting for hamlet to arrive. Polonius tells the queen to be honest and blunt to hamlet, to tell him that the pranks he has done have been too troublesome, and that the king has taken too much heat from them. The queen agrees to do…

Claudius speaks to Hamlets friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after the play. He tells them that he wants to send Hamlet to England and asks them to escort Hamlet there immediately, Claudius is doing this because he is finding hamlets madness to be dangerous to him and cannot endure it. They agree to do this and…

In the same evening as the last scene, the castle hall is now a theater Hamlet lectures the players on how to play the parts he has written and given to them He tells player one to read the lines musically and smoothly, to not exaggerate anything and to not be over the top, but…

Claudius and gertrude start off the scene talking to Rosencrantz and Guildernstern about Hamlets madness(and depression). Hamlets friends say that have been unable to find out the cause of , although they do know he is slightly mad.They also tell the King and Queen of the enthusiasm for the actors. The king agrees to watch…

Claudius and Gertrude (the queen) welcome two of Hamlets friends, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern. This is because the King and queen are increasingly concerned with Hamlets behavior and the way he is dealing with his fathers death. They have been summoned to Elsinore in order to try and cheer him out of the depressed state he…