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Hamlet - The Bard on the Stage (2)


How can one describe a work the likes of Hamlet?

This is one of the supreme masterpieces of the Bard, as we can review?


The plot is much more complex than you imagine: Hamlet, the melancholy Prince of Denmark, has to carry out the revenge of the late King's father. To kill the king were his wife, Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and his brother Claudio, who became a lover of the queen, and now sits on the throne. When the ghost of his father reveals to Hamlet the truth, the prince, already dissatisfied with the world and life, sinking into despair, anger and, above all, uncertainty: all the values \u200b\u200bhe believed in seems broken, and Hamlet is found completely alone in its heavy and unpleasant task. Mission that will bring pain, madness and rivers of blood in the royal castle of Elsinore ...

Comment on this masterpiece is difficult: Hamlet is a work full of complex issues, modern, focusing on the folds hidden in the human mind.
Above all, this is a work that not peace: it is made of questions ...

Hamlet is young - that of the prince, frustrated youth, youth atypical because Hamlet has a sadness in your heart, disgust and mistrust, to the world, just an older person, who has already seen too much .
Hamlet is insane. But what the real mad, in Hamlet?
And 'that the prince pretends to be able to act unhindered. Or the fiction itself is a form of madness? But then, we are sure that Hamlet is pretending? We are confident that there is really crazy?
Or maybe the real madness is one in which Ophelia sinks, the real innocent victim of the tragedy.

Hamlet is honor and justice ...
But that justice is one that is wet with blood, which is based on the blood and revenge? What actions are just and legitimate, including those of Claudius or Hamlet?

Hamlet is, finally, courage .... to live or die?
courage to die, of course, to sacrifice to restore justice and order in the court and, more broadly, in the world.
But even dare to live, despite living is evil, despicable, cold, daunting.
courage to live, as Hamlet says to his friend Horatio to tell the truth.









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