Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
hamlet- topic
for a topic of Hamlet i was thinking of suicide. At the beginning of the play Hamlet brings up suicide in his To be or Not to be speech, but then kind of faces toward the middle of the book. Suicide can answer all the problems in his life. He would no longer have to deal with his uncle, Ophelia's forbidden love, or anything else. but yet he wants revenge. Revenge would be the other topic i could write about. Hamlet's revenge does not work out exactly how he wants because he ends up dead and his mother gets hurt. But Larates' and Claudis' revenge was the most worthless. They were after Hamlet because he killed Polonius and he was blamed for Ophelia's death. Laertes plan of revenge only backfired on him yet he did succeed in killing Hamlet. Although he was killed by his own plan and so was Claudius. I don't think the revenge was worth it and he should have continued on to England or committed suicide.
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Naomi,
ReplyDeleteYou have some interesting observations here, but I'm not sure that you've made the most use possible of this class blog, which is meant to be a forum in which you can explore your ideas informally--and AT LENGTH (this post seems very brief). Moreover, you haven't really settled on your focus yet (suicide or revenge?) so it's hard for me to respond. You might consider what suicide and revenge have in common and how they differ (both involve death, one kills another, which the other kills oneself, etc.). But I'm not sure this is very helpful (again, I wish you'd given me more to work with). I guess I'll just wait for your first draft--which I look forward to reading! Maybe the first thing you should do is to go back and locate those specific scenes and passages that would be most helpful in developing and defending your thesis--whatever that turns out to be.