Hamlet Part 1

This week we focused completely on Shakespeare's book "Hamlet". One of the things that I had never known before was that going to one of Shakespeare's plays wasn't an elegant occasion or anything like I thought that it was. It was instead a casual event that the lower to middle class people attended.

The play started out with us learning that Hamlet's father had just died and his mother was marrying his father's brother. We then see the ghost of Hamlet's father tell Hamlet that his brother killed him by pouring poison into his ear. His father now wants Hamlet to avenge him by killing Claudius. To prevent people from catching on to what he is going to do Hamlet acts like he is mad. One of the things that people wonder about this is if by Hamlet acting mad he actually becomes mad. We finished the the first half by Hamlet sailing off to England where Clausius had sent notes to England to have Hamlet killed.

Overall, I rather enjoyed reading this book. It is pretty easy to read and has a good storyline, other than the fact that Hamlet and his mom have a little thing going on.