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ladies ladies one at a time❤️

I’ll provide post exam thoughts on hamlet: that extract was very very sexy. My classmates hated it but the ending of the play is so freaking good for analysis I spent several lines analysing hamlet just saying ‘what is that warlike sound?’ So freaking good. And of course my goats horatio and fortinbras were there 🙏🙏 horatio going through it and this fuck ass kid showing up is always peak❤️ I love writing about how sad horatio is. I didn’t mention my thoughts on fortinbras being younger but looking back on it now I think I could’ve made a good point about him talking to death being childish if taken literally. But oh well.

I didn’t like the B section, but I think it’d be easier if I actually focused on the ending when watching adaptations, but I kind of swung it by talking about things being full circle and also using marxist and feminist theory to justify the uncomfortable brutality of it. In English lit the rule of thumb is to talk about Marxism or Freud if you are out of ur depth.

Overall I think I did well, but if ocr grade boundaries smite me down on results day then ignore this comment❤️

does anyone have any thoughts on hamlet before my exam tomorrow

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HORATIO WAS IN THE OCR EXTRACT

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I have my first A level exam tomorrow which is also my first english lit exam with hamlet if the given extract doesn’t have horatio im honna crash out

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I love her so much but designing ophelia completely eludes me. I know I want her dress to be white but I want other funky colours too because I am a slut for colour symbolism + the floral motifs surrounding her character WPULD call for colours. But I like the white to simultaneously elude to a wedding dress AND a straitjacket

Her having long unkempt hair is inaccurate but it fucks so hard so I don’t care. She’s also gonna have flowers in her hair and they’ll wilt after polonius’ death

I have a lot of ideas for my interpretation’s characterisation and whatnot but I’ll dump that elsewhere. I do love her

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my redesigns are still gonna have lotsa 16th-17th century influence in the outfits but ill go wayyy more artsy with all of it and add lots of unnecessary decoration they’ll be great

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sexy’s back ebcause im redesigning all of my hamlets horatio is obviously my first victim hi everyone

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it’s my birthday today can someone deliver horatio oiled up to my house thank uou ❤️❤️

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this is so hamlet death coded if anyone gets me

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hamlet if shakespeare locked in:

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horatio CEO here to serve my people ❤️❤️

by removing horatio from any adaptation, you not only brutalise hamlet’s character, but you brutalise the foundations of the whole play!

In any play the characters are built to serve certain roles, but I think this is very significant in Hamlet, given the meta theatrical layers and the themes of identity in the play. The characters are forced to play roles that contradict themselves, ie. Hamlet, a gentle soul, is forced to take on the role as revenger, Claudius clumsily takes on the role as the king and antagonist. Etcetera.

This is where Horatio comes in. His role is to be the main character’s best friend and a witness to events, but these roles do not run contradictory to his character. Horatio is shown to be loyal, grounded and honest. He is simply just himself all throughout, and this contrasts just about every other character. The significance of this contrast is to show that Denmark has grown rotten from lies and deceit, and by the end this is purged through the deaths of our beloved main characters. Horatio is representative of a hope that morality and straight up honesty will prevail over everything. Him living to the end represents a new status quo for Denmark.

Also by removing Horatio you remove a genuinely unique character from the mix. While (sadly) scarce, his skeptical and dry commentary provides a nice break from the otherworldly theatrics of the other characters. The scene with Osric comes to mind here, as well as the very first scene with the ghost

Another thing. The renaissance is a very significant backdrop for the play, so I think it’d be a waste to remove a character so centred around being a scholar. I think Horatio is sort of the ideal scholar here. When obtaining information, he is curious but logical, only deriving conclusions from empirical evidence (a1 s1) But when the time calls for it he can be sensitive and thoughtful for a loved one. Humanism yadayada. There are a lot of other characters that Hamlet yearns to be like, but I think Horatio is the most significant. Especially since Horatio is so detached from the politics in Elsinore. You can understand a lot about Hamlet’s desires through Horatio, as well as Hamlet’s other companions. Which is why it’s dumb to remove him

I’ve posted about this before but Horatio is also the reason why Hamlet remains sane. He’s obviously depressed but I think most of his sanity is intact by the end. If Hamlet didn’t have someone in his corner who listened to him, he would have nothing to ground himself with and would lose it. I think. It would also just feel too cruel to leave Hamlet without an ally, and I think it would have the effect of making him too sympathetic. This could be a reach but I think having Hamlet be too sad could make it difficult to view some of his actions more critically. From a writer’s perspective.

I understand viewing Horatio as an extension of Hamlet, they are sorta written like that. But I think Horatio very much holds up as his own character and his part in the play is integral!! Thank you for the tag I love to yap nonsensically about Horatio 🫶

There is definitely a lot more but I have probably posted about it before or I am lazy.

hate it then hamlet adaptations completely cut out the whole character of horatio:( why would you take away hamlet's only friend do you hate him do you want him to be alone with his secret... :((

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Something I think people genuinely forget that for a while hamlet really did love Ophelia, and his whole going mad thing was in a way to allow her to save her reputation and keep a respectable husband eventually and Ik his whole laertes grave fight was mostly pride based, but there was still that moment where he really did miss her, and he really does love her

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i often think about writing fic for hamlet, but the issue is it would be sooo self-indulgent and i would just characterise them all however i want because I’m evil like that.

anyway I’ve had a lot of ideas for little stories but there are two that have stuck with me (and they’re kind of similar, blame r&gad)

the first one is a little bit of a fix-it, set after the events of the play, where a couple of weeks later, out on the battlements, Horatio comes across Hamlet who is somehow… very much not dead. He did die, but it seems it didn’t take. Neither of them knows what’s going on, but there’s definitely some stuff to work through. Oh, and he’s dead again. No, he’s back. A comedic but tragic unpacking of the events of the play with the titular character who now seems to have a second chance towards redemption, but is still harbouring incredible amounts of messed-up-edness and grief within him, and his beloved partner who knows already that no amount of therapy will ever make either of them quite right. It’s a silly little story filled with whimsy, public executions, and the question ‘now that we’ve got him this far down the spiral, how much work would it take to get him back to functional?’

the second one is more of a character study of Horatio, set during the events of the play recurringly, where Horatio wakes up the day after the end to find himself right back at the previous morning, facing a dead man who has a letter to tell him about. No matter how much Horatio tries to intervene, he can never make anything better, only worse, if anything changes at all. As the days loop on, he gets to try again, sometimes a little further back, sometimes a little different- to no avail- and he’s forced to ask himself about it- what’s keeping him here? Is it even possible to save the prince? Is Hamlet a good person worth trying to save? Was this always going to happen? When did the end become fixed? It’s also somewhat a meta commentary on the characters’ nature as fixed within the play, but prone to the freedom of adaptation. To one end, usually. Can Horatio save himself?

anyway lmk if yall wanna hear more about any of these

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big things going on in my drafts rn

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i usually don’t like contemporary interpretations of hamlet because i think the renaissance is a really important backdrop for the original play. BUT…I would be willing to hear out anyone who makes a contemporary hamlet with a hamlet, horatio, rosencrantz and guildenstern who play cod together and have diabolical shouting matches in the vc

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I LITERALLY HAD THAT SECOND ONE THOUGHT OUT CHAT THE IDEA HAUNTS ME!!!!! WORD FOR WORD W THE THEMES TOO. Only diff in my thought process is that he receives the offer to do such a thing from the ghost, to further enforce that whole supernatural meddling crap. And to also emphasise that the ghost isn’t really a ghost. It’s interesting because his designated role is a storyteller in the original play, and in this scenario he’d be trying to rewrite it. I also think it places more attention on the irrationality he exhibits when it comes to hamlet, a facet of his character i find super interesting!

i often think about writing fic for hamlet, but the issue is it would be sooo self-indulgent and i would just characterise them all however i want because I’m evil like that.

anyway I’ve had a lot of ideas for little stories but there are two that have stuck with me (and they’re kind of similar, blame r&gad)

the first one is a little bit of a fix-it, set after the events of the play, where a couple of weeks later, out on the battlements, Horatio comes across Hamlet who is somehow… very much not dead. He did die, but it seems it didn’t take. Neither of them knows what’s going on, but there’s definitely some stuff to work through. Oh, and he’s dead again. No, he’s back. A comedic but tragic unpacking of the events of the play with the titular character who now seems to have a second chance towards redemption, but is still harbouring incredible amounts of messed-up-edness and grief within him, and his beloved partner who knows already that no amount of therapy will ever make either of them quite right. It’s a silly little story filled with whimsy, public executions, and the question ‘now that we’ve got him this far down the spiral, how much work would it take to get him back to functional?’

the second one is more of a character study of Horatio, set during the events of the play recurringly, where Horatio wakes up the day after the end to find himself right back at the previous morning, facing a dead man who has a letter to tell him about. No matter how much Horatio tries to intervene, he can never make anything better, only worse, if anything changes at all. As the days loop on, he gets to try again, sometimes a little further back, sometimes a little different- to no avail- and he’s forced to ask himself about it- what’s keeping him here? Is it even possible to save the prince? Is Hamlet a good person worth trying to save? Was this always going to happen? When did the end become fixed? It’s also somewhat a meta commentary on the characters’ nature as fixed within the play, but prone to the freedom of adaptation. To one end, usually. Can Horatio save himself?

anyway lmk if yall wanna hear more about any of these

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hamlet needed to die for that shit he was saying about gertrude im being so serious

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this hamlet shit is serious now i soyjak point at the mere mention of shakesepeare in anything