Hamlet Movie Review
Submitted by mewritepapers on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Hamlet Movie Review
Shakespeare's play, Hamlet is a wonderful yet sad story of multiple tragedies. The play is extremely sad because almost all of the main characters die in the end. The death of all the players is probably the best way for the play to end. They all end up killing each other. The tragic events leave the viewer with a lesson to be learned. The viewer is touched in some way by all the tragedy.
All movies should not have a happy ending. They would all be too much alike. Shakespeare knew that good work did not always have to end with positive resolution. Shakespeare could take even a sad story and cause it to be enjoyable. He knew how to captivate his audience to keep them interested. The sad ending leaves the viewer almost in tears. Although the audience's heart is breaking, a good play is being made. That is a mark of good literature. Shakespeare takes the tragedy and causes his viewer to enjoy it.
The story line is not very complicated at all. Only two short months after the death of the King of Denmark his widow, Gertrude, remarries her new lover Claudius, the king's brother. Claudius assumes the throne, as he is now the king. Queen Gertrude's son Hamlet is greatly upset by the quick marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet is suspicious of Claudius. Immediately, Hamlet suspects bad intentions.
His suspicions grow when his faithful friend, Horatio tells Hamlet that he has just seen the King's ghost. The ghost of his father comes to Hamlet and tells him that Claudius poisoned had him to become king himself. Hamlet begins acting so incredibly strangely that everyone assumes he has gone crazy.
Hamlet is deeply in love with a girl named Ophelia, but her father, Polonius, thinks Hamlet has gone absolutely crazy too. Hamlet devises a plan to kill Claudius, but instead he accidentally takes the life of Polonius, his lover's father. This terrible mistake causes Laertes, Ophelia's brother, to seek the revenge for...
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