The Great Shakespearean Adventure: Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3

[cesario]

Previous posts:
Act I, Scene 1: The Crazy Occult Forays of Marcellus and Horatio.
Act I, Scene 2: Claudius is the villain, but he's still hotter than you.

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[cesario]

You know, I also wrote about Hamlet and Macbeth in 12th grade. I think we had a choice between comparing and contrasting Ophelia with Lady Macbeth, or Hamlet with Macbeth, and I picked the chicks. In retrospect, you know, that was an incredibly uninspired sort of essay topic. OH HEY WAIT A MINUTE, I just remembered: you went to Enloe too. HAHAHAHAH. Boy, do they ever need to get a new freakin' curriculum.

Apparently, according to my book on floral symbolism, violets are meant to stand for modesty. WHY that should be so I am sure I don't know since violets are the gaudiest little flowers you ever saw. But I, like you, would be much more inclined to connect them to Hamlet and his passion than to Ophelia's maiden modesty.

[infiniteviking]

Now I know why Ophelia annoyed me so much. Because she shouldn't have let that happen to her, darnit.

..yeah, it was the way things happened in those days, she had no choice, etc. But all the intelligence and spirit you point out just highlights how she deserved so much better than being torn to bits by incompatible conditions.

[cesario]

She makes much more sense to me, in terms of "letting things happen to her", if you think of her as being about 15, 'cause when you're that age you can never conceive of the world ever being different from how it is right now.

I love your icon, btw. It keeps reminding me that I need to see that movie again. And read it again, no doubt.

[infiniteviking]

Hm, that's true. Makes it all the more tragic, then; she'd have made a formidable woman if her mind had had a chance to develop.

*smiles* Thanks! Feel free to grab it, if you like. I still haven't seen any of the movies, but dearly want to.