he has not included it anywhere in this play. Some believe that the grave digging scene in Act 5 is comical but it is more of what Aristotle would have called, ‘appropriateness.’ The grave diggers are not being funny but just the people they are and how they think. The grave diggers, speculating at the nature of Ophelias death do not seem comical rather foolish. The play begins with death and a gloom hanging in the air and ends with even more deaths and melancholy, maintaining the serious tone of the
I interviewed Nick Williams, who plays the role of Horatio in the upcoming stage play Hamlet that will run from November 4th through the 7th at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in the Givens Performing Arts Center. Actor Williams, who plays Horatio in the upcoming production is a junior at UNC- Pembroke where his major is theater. Williams says that he chose to audition for Hamlet because it would be a new experience and he thought it would be a good step to make in his acting career
Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been thoroughly analyzed in all the major themes the play explores, however, the massive extent to which madness is examined by scholars is incontrovertible. Madness being a flexible category in how it’s analyzed and interpreted, Hamlet makes for a curious discussion. In Hamlet, Shakespeare weaves madness throughout his play through means of plot development, as use for both a protagonist and an antagonist, and as a way to identify it as something other than how it is typically
HAMLET was the play, or rather Hamlet himself was the character, in the intuition and exposition of which I first made my turn for philosophical criticism, and especially for insight into the genius of Shakspeare, noticed. This happened first amongst my acquaintances, as Sir George Beaumont will bear witness; and subsequently, long before Schlegel had delivered at Vienna the lectures on Shakspeare, which he afterwards published, I had given on the same subject eighteen lectures substantially the
will share the exact same thoughts, beliefs, and interests with another. Secondly, both art and the human mind are complex in design, meaning, and purpose. Lastly, artwork has been known to be inspirational and though-provoking throughout history, and the human mind shares these traits literally and figuratively. The painting Mona Lisa, symphony Requiem Mass in D minor, and play Hamlet are all critically acclaimed works of art, consequently, the minds of Leonardo da Vinci, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin