Hamlet+2.2

3. Hamlet - Why do you continuously put yourself down? In your "O, what a rogue" speech, you continuously need confirmation about everything. At one point you even question the reality of the ghost. Is that really how you feel or is some greater power making you think in this crazy way? You seem to think that revenge is not the way to go with your uncle. After the ghost advises you to take revenge on your uncle by killing him, what was your first reaction? Did you want to obey the ghost to honor your father's death or did you need something real to advise you what the ghost already had? Why do you need to assure yourself that it is okay to kill your uncle when your uncle killed your father, your own father. Have you not gone mad thinking about the fact that your own mother is now married to the crazy man that succesfully killed your father. Do you think your mother had anything to do with it? I feel bad for you. I think that you need to get your thoughts straight before you turn insane.

4. Hamlet says, "The spirit that I have seen / May be a (devil,) and the (devil) hath power / T' assume a pleasing shape" (2.2.628-629). This line shows Hamlet's thought that maybe the ghost is a figure of his imagination. Hamlet is doubting the ghosts existence. This made me think that if this ghost is in Hamlet's imagination, how is everyone else (Horatio, Barnardo, etc) seeing the ghost as well? Doesn't that mean that the ghost is real? Or could it be a figure of everyone's imagination, everyone that knew of the King's death? I think that when Hamlet doubts the ghost and its existence makes me think the ghost is his imagination as well.

6. Although Hamlet answers Polonious's many questions with insane answers, I think that Hamlet has a lot on his mind. I do not think that Hamlet realizes how insane people think he is. Polonious and Hamlet don't seem to have a perfect relationship with one another, but I also do not think that their relationship is a corrupted one. I think that Hamlet has a lot on his mind dealing with his father's death and his mother's marriage to the murderer, but I also think that Polonious has a lot on his mind dealing with Laertes leaving for France and his daughter's feelings for Hamlet. I cannot really tell how their relationship is going to unfold. I believe that at this point it could go either way. It may depend on the time of day or the mood that Polonious and Hamlet are both in.

Videos: I think that these videos made it clearer for me Hamlet's true feelings. I liked the first Richard Burton video because his change in tone of voice made me realize how Hamlet has truly gone a little bit insane! I found the second Kenneth Branagh video kind of a little creepy. I liked the background because it helped me picture in my head what would be going on as Hamlet made this long speech.The third Hawke video really confused me. The flipping back from the television to the man on the bed thoroughly confused me.