So I was thinking about Hamlet And really couldn't find one dominate theme to it?
Does anyone have any clues to what one might be?
I got appearance versus reality and epic but is there one main one that I am missing?
I thought of this because I think that the essay question will be relating to this.
Sean Bronczyk
2 comments:
I think one of the themes is the roles of people. Hamlet had the role of avenging his father and helping his mother repent for marrying Claudius (being a good son) aa well as becoming king, Gertrude had the role of being a mother and protecting her son, Polonius had the role of working the king. Every character had people they were supposed to be loyal to and had obligations towards others.
-Paul D
I agree with Paul, but I also wanted to add on to the appearance versus reality bit. I think that the most important theme within the A v R theme is the difference between sane and insane. And the "there is no bad or good but thinking makes it so." Also, I was thinking about how all of the literary works that we have read this year are related and I think you could make a decent essay on the "nothing is either good or bad" philosophy.
John Leskow
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