Okay, where to start...
There's a lot of scenes in the, uh, thing of media Hamlet. To me, some of them are pretty boring, some of them are kinda dumb, and some of them aren't really that bad.
Personally, my favorite is Act 3, Scene 4. The first half of the scene MY FAVORITE HALF involves a little (maybe unintentional) humor, with Hamlet parroting his mother in response to her pressing questions and her wish that he cease his irrational behavior. Their conversation quickly turns aggressive, with Hamlet inadvertently killing Polonius and barely reacting with a mere, "Is it the king?"
Their exchange throughout is pretty dynamic to me, as it shows the audience/readers/moviegoers/??? that Hamlet's become almost entirely dedicated to exacting revenge, while Queen Gertrude gives us a window to see how his insanity and singular focus has affected literally everyone around him.
Obviously, Hamlet doesn't care about her at all, and just rants about how much he hates Claudius. And while I really don't like all of his edge/angst, I personally can't pass up an extremely rant that's all about "I hate my uncle/dad/king/your husband and I wish he were dead."
Unfortunately, I think the meaning of this rant was definitely lost on me. I just couldn't help but laugh.
It gets a little awkward and uncomfortable when he's screaming at his mom to not have sex with Claudius in "the rank sweat of an enseamed (ew) bed." I think we were supposed to relate with Gertrude at that part, when she pleads for Hamlet to "Speak [...] no more!"
Oh, also I'm supposed to talk about how this scene is memorable. Three things.
1) Polonius died. Memorable because this is definitely what we'd get questioned on in terms of "how well do you know Hamlet"
2) Hamlet's rant about Father-Uncle-King Claudius (why did Shakespeare bring up the uncle thing? to mess with us?)
3) The conversation involving enseamed beds. Pretty self explanatory.
Thank you for reading.
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