#hamlet and laertes

[unicornofthemidwest]

Girls will see narrative foils who hate each other but can never be separated and be like "they should kiss"

[aq2003]

the way hamlet acts in act 5 scene 1 juuuust clicked to me. like my impression was "smh my head he is so toxic, he did NOT love ophelia as much as laertes did, what is wrong with him" but actually i think the thing that sets him off isn't just laertes' display of grief, it's also how everyone takes it seriously. everyone treats ophelia's funeral like a funeral and is sympathetic to laertes and understanding of his desire to jump in a grave with her etc but these same people around hamlet expected him to celebrate his uncle's coronation and move on from his father's death at the same time. in that moment hamlet sees laertes as similar to the actor narrating priam's death in act 2 scene 2 and it makes him SO mad (and he regrets it later in act 5 scene 2 which is after he realizes laertes' emotions are as real as his own. probably why he calls him "brother" as well)

[ghost--bot]

[wheretobuygoodurl]

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

specific things in literature things i think about often pt 1/?

-basil’s love for dorian

-david and giovanni

-francis abernathy

-juliet capulet and her sense of agency

-laertes’s and ophelia’s relationship

-clive durham dooming the narrative for himself

-neil perry playing puck

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Anyone who has been personally victimized by Hamlet, please raise your hand...

[silverwhittlingknife]

"the fault, dear Brutus -" (Julius Caesar)

Quotes from A Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches. Panels from Death in the Family, Under the Red Hood, Lost Days, and Batman and Robin.

[qweenofurheart]

act five scene 2

[venacesaur]

screaming crying throwing up thinking about these lines from hamlet. btw

[moonlarked]

thinking about hamlet leaving to wittenberg to escape the shadow of his family and then returning because of the death of his father, and then laertes leaving to france to escape the shadow of his family and then returning because of the death of his father, and then both of them killing each other both directly and indirectly because of said deaths, meaning neither of them were ever able to truly escape the shadow. those foils sure are foiling

[scoobhead]

you guys need to hop on the hamlet/laertes train with me. the heartbreak. the intrigue. the childhood friends to twentysomething lovers. the sneaking around, the clandestine meetings, the writing letters and leaving them in inconspicuous places. ophelia finding letters intended for her brother. ophelia thinking they're for her. ophelia falling in love with a ghost of hamlet, a hamlet who loves her back. hamlet curses his mother for loving her partner's brother when he is (seemingly) doing the same. get thee to a nunnery. ophelia killing herself as a result of hamlet's cruelty. laertes's sister killing herself as a result of his lover's cruelty. the final duel between hamlet and laertes. grief for grief. poison blade for poison blade. death for death.

[thehamletdiaries]

Alright, I made the quiz; I made it in a semi-lazy way so you just get to find out what character I think you are in an, of course, in an amazingly scientific way, but that's really all it is. It's also just the "younger generation", so - Hamlet, Horatio, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Laertes and Fortinbras.

Anyway, enjoy!

[ancientbread]

muppet hamlet you might be tempted to cast Kermit as hamlet but you’d be wrong it’s Gonzo. Rizzo is Horatio

[cleverclove]

Okay but you know what I’d personally do, if I were ever to direct a Hamlet production?

Home. Videos.

A quick video of Hamlet Sr. and Gertrude, giggling and on vacation while Hamlet is talking about how she “used to hang on him.”

Horatio showing up accompanied by a grainy video of Hamlet and Horatio drunkenly singing karaoke in the background.

Polonius films a 10 year old Laertes with baby Ophelia in his arms, humming her tunes that later becomes the melody for her madness songs.

And scattered throughout, Polaroid pictures of Hamlet and Ophelia kissing. Of Laertes’s letters from France with pictures of the beauty of Paris.

Show snippets of how beautiful everyone’s life was before it all went to shit.

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

they’re exes your honour