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Post by hansoo on Feb 22, 2015 9:27:35 GMT
I do believe that any sort of literature has its purpose or meaning other than merely telling it. This surely applies to Shakespeare and his tragedy, Hamlet.
Personally, I felt Shakespeare earnestly telling us "Do not invest too much on a revenge, as there is nothing to gain."
What do you guys think?
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Post by lukejoo on Feb 22, 2015 12:14:09 GMT
Adding to that, I believe another lesson could be "Be true to yourself." We see Hamlet becoming mad as he starts to act mad. If he had just stayed as his true self, then this wouldn't have happened. Trying to wear a costume that isn't you eventually ruins you. Just be you.
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Post by elisalee on Feb 22, 2015 14:04:01 GMT
I agree with both of the opinions above. If you focus on one thing too much, you will eventually loose something that is important to you. Also, the truth will always come out at the end no matter how much you try to hide it.
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Post by brandonina on Feb 22, 2015 14:05:07 GMT
I believe that another lesson could be that we suffer at one point in our life and the point of our life is to cope with the hardships that we face. I guess we mature as we experience hardships, face them, and get over with them. I also think that the readers may appreciate (?) their life since Hamlet's life represents a pretty harsh and terrible life.
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Post by jmoon234 on Feb 22, 2015 15:35:55 GMT
I think that the message of the story is losing someone is hard, but it is important to maintain oneself or less he or she will be corrupted or obsessed for the rest of their lives.
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Post by sergeyfen on Feb 22, 2015 16:00:08 GMT
Another lesson that can be learned is "an eyer for an eye" never works. You will never live in piece unless you have a revenge after a revenge, once simply must be stronger and stop fighting in order to prevent future fights. It has nothing to do with maturity of a person it all has to do with personality and will to forgive, even if it is as harsh a death of your own father.
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Post by justink on Feb 22, 2015 16:06:32 GMT
ohhhhhh i seeee!! i was also wondering about the meaning of this play since everyone just died in the end… it left me with … "what now?…" i agree with Hansoooo's point. Since Hamlet focused on vengeance throughout the entire play, it not only costed his life but also everyone else's lives. If Hamlet were to move on and find other ways of releasing his stress, things would've ended up positively.
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Post by James on Mar 1, 2015 8:33:20 GMT
I think i agree with you as we always learn that revenge results nothing. Shakespeare was trying to say that revenge brings nothing but a tragic end. Also, don't believe what it seems to be true but the actuality. The theme appearance vs reality reAlly hit me hard for this literature
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Post by jimim on Mar 1, 2015 10:11:41 GMT
I think people shouldn't focus on supernatural things too much because this tragedy is the result of father's ghost. If Hamlet did not believe the ghost, he might have just became king someday and no one might have been killed. So people should just think and take care about real things rather than ghost or unrealistic things.
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Post by saimoon1 on Mar 1, 2015 10:28:32 GMT
I agree with you Hansoo, as i was reading i also felt that if there is anything important that could be learnt from Hamlet overall, it is not to get stuck too much onto revenge and because it might not end well for the avenger either.
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Post by chrishong on Mar 1, 2015 13:36:33 GMT
For me, the lesson I learned from reading this literature is that "No one knows who will die and when will they die. It might be today, tomorrow, or later. Use the time wisely to love one another instead of hating one another".
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Post by estherchoi on Mar 1, 2015 13:59:45 GMT
Yeah I agree with you with what Shakespeare wanted to say to the audience through this play. In the end, everyone dies because they wanted to take revenge of someone. Taking revenge, as shown in the play does not bring anything good, so Shakespeare's lesson is revenge is not good.
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Post by anyuchen on Mar 1, 2015 14:09:37 GMT
I totally agree with that many people write the poem to show their main thought. I think Shakespeare want to emphasize societity at that time has a dirty high class working like Hamlet's family. They have many corruption and have many can-not telling truth about their loyal family.
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Post by nerdira on Mar 1, 2015 14:49:09 GMT
I feel like the entire story is telling us to make a decision, stick to it, and don't get cold feet or keep backing out of something cuz if Hamlet did EXACTLY THAT we wouldn't have to sit through 5 acts of a play which is basically about a whiny emo teen with serious family issues.
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Post by misato on Mar 1, 2015 15:05:52 GMT
I think the message of Hamlet is do not believe people who around you. The characters of Hamlet were got betray by others.
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