Hamlet.... well i have read hamlet... hmm 3 times in the past year and a half.... so pretty much every semester for the last year and a half i have read it. not that i dont enjoy hamelt... but its taken me a while to pick it up again and read it again....
i am taking a Harold Bloom class this semester and constantly Bloom speaks of Shakespeare as not only being the center of the western canon, but also the single most greatest writer of all time. not that he uses those words but he might as well because that is what he comes across as saying... not that i dont agree with him at all, and in fact when he writes about Hamlet i completely agree. When reading Hamlet, even when he at times seems to be annoying or just plain being a baby, i think that anyone can really connect to him and really be able to understand what him on a level that no on e int the play can.
i think that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet for the audience... for the audience to really connect to him because he doesnt have anyone else that understands him in his life. now i feel like i am talking like bloom... but one thing for sure... like reading hamlet again or not, there is a sense of connection to the character everytime i read it. i dont find myself a very melancholy person but what i do find is that through his melancholy and at times in my melancholy moments there is room for epiphanies to happen. in silence and 'aloneness' and in deep thought that only one can reach in a moment pf melancholy i think is where some of the greatest epiphanies can come from.
