At 11:56 PM 29/09/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Hamlet's choices and his tendancy to keep putting
off, doom him in the
>end. If he had killed off the murderer early, then he
could have taken the
>throne and that would have been that. By waiting and
acting all funny, he
>inspired two atempts on his life, the second of which
succeeded. Not to
>mention contributing to the suicide of Ophelia, a
woman he loved, by
>killing her father.
This would make it tragedy in my books. Doom follows from his
own tragic character flaw.
If Hamlet had acted more decisively but unsuccessfully,
however, plunging Denmark into decades of civil war, only to
be conquered by the Netherlands, killing Hamlet, Claudius and
the rest of the Danish royals and enslaving the Danes to
build dykes against the North Sea, well, that would have been
noir.
I know some of you might be tempted to suggest that the Dutch
make out fine in this scenario, but what about all those
newly unemployed dyke-workers, in the streets of Amsterdam
and agitating for reform?
Best, Kerry
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