A Hamlet's Introduction

Everyone has heard of Hamlet.We at least know its author and maybe that at some point he goes wild or becomes crazy. This introduction is not quite to the book but what the movie about the book is trying to show.

The director hows the watchers how Hamlet is going to be represented and hat will be the means to show the real character created by William Shakespeare. This is of great importance because sometimes the acting can't show the real and true character that may be represented in the script or the actual book.

It is important that directors do this because Shakespeare's plays are not easy to fully understand and by this introduction you may get his wonderful stories better. I expect great things about the play, and I just want to ask,

Is it Hamlet crazy just because he talks to himself way to much?

Gabriela

A Prisoner and Hamlet

Is it easier to play this changing character who has faced death when you are in a correctional? actors in this particular production think they have lived through what Hamlet has lived and that is why they see it in another way.

Shakespeare is not another author you just read and throw away. It is an author that gets to your inner person and make you reflect, even when you are a small kid at a play that now know he hates books. Hamlet is not the exemption. People think that he is totally crazy because he saw his fathers ghost, is he crazy? the same thing happens to this people maybe they are innocent and people judge them or they are guilty but people have not heard they're side of the story.

People will almost always relate to a character in Shakespeare plays and it is by relating that our acting skills get better, because we are representing our inner mind.

To which character do you relate?

Gabriela

Hamlet's Acting

It is very hard to act out a character that changes of emotions like a women in her days. This two particular performances recreate two different perspectives that Hamlet has towards his father's dead. In one he is just criticizing his mother for marrying his uncle. He is sad and feels miserable for what happened to his father, but he can't resist to show this feeling of resent he has towards his mother for what he calls "a dextery to incestuous sheets" (Act 1, scene 2, line 15).

The second performance show us a totally different Hamlet this one has a thirst of revenge and a feeling of hate, because people don't believe what he found out about his father's dead. It is not longer a feeling of sadness but a sentiment of hate and anger towards the man who killed his father and the people who ignored his discoveries and treated him like a "pigeon-liver'd and lack gall" (Act 2 scene 2). 


Both feeling are trapped inside him and they come out of him in different times. This two performances are not the same because they represent different feeling Hamlet had at two different times. Although both are great representations of the character Hamlet they can't be compared because of the changing mental situation the main character is suffering at those different timings. 


Gabriela

Krapp's Idea Of Life

Again talking about Krapp but not as a young man on a tape but as the old man hearing. This time love may mean something different, this time love may be seen in a different perspective.

While he hears, he refers himself as "that stupid bastard I took myself for thirty years ago" (Krapp). He may be more mature about the aspect of love, or he may now think it is something it only harms you and makes you grow to be bitter. Love may be harmful but at the age he was on the tape love is simple.

Krapp will always have the wrong idea of love. When he was young it was simple, when he was old it was something harmful, what is then the true meaning of love?

Again, I don't know the true meaning of this feeling but I know that although it may look harmful sometimes it is something wonderful. There are 2 sides of love and as there are 2 sides of everything on life. Can we really know it total true meaning? I guess we can't. It is divided in millions of types like the love of a parent and the love for a friend, that people confuse them with a simple crush or a Complex of Edipus but at the end it will always be love.




Love is weird but wonderful.


Gabriela

The Tape's Idea Of Life

In the theatrical piece Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, we see two different perspectives about this man's thoughts about love. The tape which is a symbol of him at a young age, shows how at a those ages we don't really know what love means and represents. In the case of the tape, he thinks love is falling for that person you met at the park and that you now dream about that person next to you at night.

This is immature and a very vague significance of love. This is because love is more than meeting someone special, and I know this because although I don't really know its true significance I know it has to mean something more. I know there must be a reason for all those romantic novels and short stories, I know there must be a reason why people get married or kiss. Meeting and dreaming may be the cute part of love, but it the feeling of butterflies inside your stomach can't be something as simple as dreaming how does "She lay streched out on the floorboards with her hands under her head and her eyes closed" (tape).

Love has a lot of meanings but at those ages it may not mean that much.

Gabriela