Hamlet Remix

                                           

 
 
 







         



This is my Hamlet Remix. The masks show the feelings that were shown throughout the play. The poison represents the way Hamlet's father was murdered which was by poison in his ear. The letters represent the letters Hamlet had sent to Ophelia. This sword represents when Polonius was stabbed by Hamlet through a curtain and dragged off. The last picture is a ghost which represents the ghost of Hamlet's father who wandered the hall in the very beginning of the play.

 

A Poetic Inquiry

Old Big Question: Why are we so quick to judge someone based on appearance?

New Big Question: Why are we so quick to judge someone on who they love and can easily tell them why they are wrong? Why can't we be happy for them?

I thought this sonnet of love was a good one that related to my new big question.

Sonnet on love:

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/Valentine.php 

 

If I should think of love
I'd think of you, your arms uplifted,
Tying your hair in plaits above,
The lyre shape of your arms and shoulders,
The soft curve of your winding head.
No melody is sweeter, nor could Orpheus
So have bewitched. I think of this,
And all my universe becomes perfection.
But were you in my arms, dear love,
The happiness would take my breath away,
No thought could match that ecstasy,
No song encompass it, no other worlds.
If I should think of love,
I'd think of you.

 

-The web-master, shakespeares-sonnets.com   2002.-

Sonnet Analysis #1

Hamlet Essay

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the main character has a lot on his mind and plate.  He lost his father and his mother to a man who once thought cared for him. Hamlet’s father was murdered by his own brother and his mother married the man who murdered her husband shortly after the tragedy. Hamlet is definitely trying to cope but has no support since everyone is telling him to get over it and move on “it’s been two months”. Self-overhearing is applicable to real life and Hamlet as well.

As people, we try to speak a higher morality even though our actions may say otherwise. This shows that we try to seem like better people even though we turn into hypocrites when it comes to our actions. In Hamlet it showed that he was trying to understand how to avenge his father’s death but made a huge mess of it in the process. Hamlet did not think his actions through even though he thought he was doing a good thing it was scaring many other people he was close to. Every person thought Hamlet was taking this too far but still had no idea why he was becoming so “crazy”. He had good reason and was in his mind sane. Looking at my own self-overhearing, you realize we do this every day. Reading back in the journals we write everyday there was a topic about the masks we wear. It’s always changing depending on what we do and who we agree with.

The masks we wear change who we are as a person. It depends with who you want to impress or how you want to be portrayed. In real life people change their “masks” to fit in. They agree with whoever is “popular” and they think it will help them instead of saying what they really feel or becoming who they want to be. This becomes an issue for people because they become followers when they are meant to lead their own life. Hamlet wears a mask that shows he cares for his late father. He shows that he will do anything to prove he was murdered by his own brother and nothing seems to stop him. Hamlet loses people he cares about along the way but he is doing something that is important to him and to him it is not crazy in that sense that is self-overhearing in Hamlet and in real life. The experience of memorizing the “to be or not to be” soliloquy was very nerve-wrecking and very un-enjoyable. It took a lot of patience and was difficult. Most people including myself have a hard time memorizing anything and can be very stressful. This was a really long soliloquy and the fact that it had to be memorized and presented was awful. After reading the soliloquy it was easier to understand the point of it and what Hamlet exactly meant. You could easily tell that Hamlet contemplated the idea of suicide but did not go through with it because he had bigger things to overcome and prove like his father’s death.

            Overall, Hamlet dealt with a lot and was pretty young. Despite losing his father he found a somewhat positive benefactor which is trying to prove his uncle Claudius guilty. He had very good tactics in doing so. The way Hamlet recited his soliloquies was very relatable to our own lives. A mask can help you hide behind who you really are and sometimes the only person you need to be is you.

Tools That Change the Way We Think

"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. 'It will be included in people's brains,' said Page. 'When you think about something and don't really know much about it, you will automatically get information.'

'That's true,' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what's going on around them and suggest useful information.'

'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page,' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you'll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."

-From In the Plex by Steven Levy (p.67)

How does use of the Internet, media, and/or technology change the way you think?

What I find myself doing whenever I search something on the internet is getting the answer off of a website and then forgetting that information the next day. I do believe that the internet has weakened my memory. I find myself looking the same things up again and again because I don't seem to remember exactly what I had read previously. I think this is because I know that I can easily go back and look at the information I want because it is on the internet so I'm not as focused on letting what I read actually sink in. We may not realize it but technology has a huge impact on our lives.

Vocabulary #9

1. Aficionado (n)- an ardent devotee; fan, enthusiast

- Susie's dad is a sports car aficionado.

2.Browbeat (v)- to intimidate with overbearing looks or words; bullying
- The older kids browbeat the younger boy.

3. Commensurate (adj)- having the same measure; equal extent or duration
- My friend and I worked out at the same commensurate.

4. Diaphanous (adj)- very sheer or light; almost transparent
- The dress was diaphanous.

 
5. Emolument (n)- profit, salaries, or fees from office or employment 
- The bake sale was successful as it brought in a lot of emolument. 


6. Foray (n)- a quick sudden attack
- The foray on Pearl Harbor surprised everyone.





7. Genre (n)- a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, or technique
- I love to watch different genres of movies.
 

8. Homily (n)- a sermon; an inspiring saying or cliche
- That homily is commonly used in Church .  
 
9. Immure (v)- to imprison; to shut-in
- They immured the prisoner in the cell.


10. Insouciant (adj)- free from worry; carefree; nonchalant
- His insouciant attitude showed that he was not worried about getting caught with the answers.


11. Matrix (n)- a point when something else originates, develops, or takes form
- The matrix of the rock was when the crystals formed. 


12. Obsequies (n)- a funeral rite, or ceremony
- It is hard for me to go to obsequies because everyone is very sad. 


13. Panache (n)- a grand manner; style; flair
- My always boss walked around with a proper panache. 


14. Persona (n)- the characters in a play
- His favorite persona from the play was Tom. 


15. Philippic (n)- any speech of bitter denunciation
- No one was surprised from her philippic at the interview. 


16. Prurient (adj)- having lustful thoughts or desires
- She felt uncomfortable by the boys prurient glances. 




17. Sacrosanct (adj)- extremely sacred
- The sacrosanct family bible is very important to my family. 



18. Systemic (adj)- of or pertaining to a system
- The cows disease became systemic as all cows were affected. 


19. Tendentious (adj)- having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or propose
- During the game of darts, he won with his tendentious throws.







20. Vicissitude (n)- a change or variation occurring in the course of something
- He went through a vicissitude when his mother passed. 

The Performative Utterance in Hamlet

Hamlet never really repeated that he was going to avenge his fathers death but that he would never forget it as of course it was his father.  We can tell Hamlet really wants revenge and will do anything to seek it. The central problem of the play is that people represent their feeling and their intentions in ways that are contrary to reality.