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April 26, 2008 at 01:18:47

Hamlet Adaptation (Act 1, Scene 1)

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                                   HORATIO
            I wouldn't have believed this without seeing it for myself.
            I think I understand now.

                                   MARCELLUS
            It's just like the king, isn't it?

                                   HORATIO
            Just like you are to yourself. And I think that was the same
            armor he wore against King Fortinbras. The same scowl he
            always had on the battlefield. It's strange.

                                   MARCELLUS
            Twice before--just like now--he's moved past us like that.

                                   HORATIO
            This doesn't bode well. It's some sort of strange eruption-
            a disorder in our society.

                                   MARCELLUS
            Exactly! Why is there so much brass going to cannons? All
            this trade in armaments? Why are shipwrights building ships
            seven days a week? What's the threat that accounts for all
            this?

                                   HORATIO
            Word is that Prince Fortinbras has been going about Norway,
            putting together an army to take back the land his father
            lost to King Hamlet.

                                   BARNARDO
            That sounds right to me. And that's why the king does not
            rest. His acts are still the central issue of the war.

                                   HORATIO
            They say that when Rome was at its peak, just before Julius
            Caesar was assassinated, graves opened up and corpses in
            their shrouds went shrieking through the streets. Comets
            blazed across the skies, and the sun and the moon both were
            eclipsed. Some of the same omens are appearing to us now, in
            the heavens and on earth.

                                   (Ghost re-enters.)

                                   HORATIO (CONT'D)
            Look! There it is!

                                   (Ghost spreads its arms.)

                                   HORATIO (CONT'D)
                          (to Ghost)
            Stop! If you have a voice--speak to us!

                                   (No reply.)

                                   HORATIO (CONT'D)
            If there's something that can be done to bring you peace-
            tell us!

                                   (No reply.)

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2 comments

Wolfie

Hamlet feigns madness.

We must face the spectre, though we dread to look upon one who has

tossed off this mortal coil.

What shall we see? Is it telling us to act as a madman in order to restore

honor and respectability to our realm?

It may cause the death of a Polonius, and his fair daughter, Ophelia,

among many. Yet to ever see the sun over far yon high eastern hill

it will require the girding of our spirits and our marshalling our wits.

The incestuous marraige of government and corporations is breeding

monstrous litters of Blackwaters, General Electrics, and Exxon-mobils.

We must put on the play that will capture the conscience of the king.

Murder so foul! Of our land and freedoms that we Princes were heir to

have become fouled by the putrid mists of these shandras!

Wolfie does dare to bring some unpolluted air to this rotting corpse

of a nation. Woof if you agree.

by Wolfie (9 articles, 0 quicklinks, 33 diaries, 1208 comments) on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 12:42:07 PM

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john de herreraWriter from California

wuff! wuff! aaahhooooo!

that was an awesome comment wolfie! thanks! it's been said that the greatness of a work is related to how many valid interpretations can be applied to it. enjoyed your take.

by john de herrera (36 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 158 comments) on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 1:28:04 PM