woojong
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Post by woojong on Mar 1, 2015 15:14:22 GMT
Personally, I think what Shakespeare was trying to say was "don't let your emotions take over you". It is similar to some of you guys' opinion, and it is true that you won't have good consequences if you act too impulsively.
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jason
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Post by jason on Mar 1, 2015 17:07:48 GMT
The message of Hamlet is about keeping things real and accepting the reality.
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bachle
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Post by bachle on Mar 5, 2015 16:46:26 GMT
I agree with Hansoo, and I think i can connect your idea to Buddhist's philosophy that if you revenge, their descendant will revenge you so it's just keep going on. Consequently, i know it's hard but someone should abandon their rancor at one point.
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Post by dhiya on Mar 7, 2015 9:02:36 GMT
I think the message should reflect most of the main characters in the play. What I get from the play is that, each of us, at some point in our lives, would be "mad" about something, it would drive us like crazy and it'd be up to us to control it and not get drowned in it; for instance, Hamlet was "mad" for revenge, so was Laertes, Claudius and Polonius were obsessed with power, Ophelia was mad for love, Gertrude was mad for affection and status... if they were able to control it from the beginning, none of the tragic deaths would happen. The message is to not be 'too driven' about something, it would cause more harm to your surroundings: it wouldn't bring you any good.
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Post by ameliachen80385 on Mar 7, 2015 9:52:08 GMT
I think the message what I got from "Hamlet" is Keep the way you are.As we can see,Hamlet plans to act weird but the end he loses himself and dies.
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Post by danielkim on Mar 7, 2015 11:08:28 GMT
The message of Hamlet could be:
Do not be greedy or else you will lose your possessions someday: Claudius killed King Hamlet for power, which lasted shortly.
Be honest: Hamlet had a hard time by pretending to be mad and his decision to do so resulted in a complicated situation.
The crime you committed will soon harm you: Claudius’s murder of King Hamlet resulted in Hamlet’s desire to kill Claudius. Hamlet’s murder of Polonius resulted in a duel with Laertes. Gertrude’s marriage of Claudius resulted in Hamlet’s misogyny.
What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light: Claudius killed King Hamlet and the truth is revealed by the ghost.
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Post by leeeeena on Mar 8, 2015 1:25:44 GMT
I agree with everyone above. I think this story wanted to tell how scary human nature is. Claudius' greediness lead everything wrong.
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woori
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Post by woori on Mar 8, 2015 3:04:44 GMT
In my opinion, the massage in Hamlet is thinking bad way makes can mess up around you.
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Post by dannyoh on Mar 8, 2015 12:30:42 GMT
I feel like it's trying to tell us that life is too short to be angry all the time. If you don't let it go, you might have to face huge consequences.
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Post by lukejoo on Mar 8, 2015 13:05:48 GMT
I think another lesson can be learned from Claudius. Because of his greed, he ended up killing his own brother, lead his nephew to his own death, and jeopardized his own soul as by giving up eternal peace for momentary pleasure. If he had just refrained from his desires and stay put, he wouldn't have lost his life and cause all of this tragedy. He shows us how important it is to be able to control ourselves from what we want.
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Post by edward95312 on Mar 8, 2015 13:15:45 GMT
After i finish this story, i think of one quote "no pain no gain" To do his revenge, Hamlet put him in to death himself. I know when we want something we need to sacrifies something. He did right thing to do in the story.
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Post by chrishong on Mar 8, 2015 13:22:33 GMT
Another lesson I learned from this literature was that "Revenge is like a knife's blade that can kill a person in single blow. Therefore, revenge is not the best solution to the problem".
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Post by agneslianaputri on Mar 8, 2015 15:42:35 GMT
I personally think that the message from hamlet is that revenge itself is deadly. Hamlet causes his own downfall by his obsession with revenge.
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Post by irin on Mar 8, 2015 17:43:17 GMT
I think the message is revenge it can be deadly and knife's blade so revenge is not best solution of the problem.His revenge put to him death.
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Post by lins on Mar 15, 2015 8:09:39 GMT
Since there were many themes in the play, I think there were lots of messages that Shakespeare tried to convey. As Hansoo said, one of the message is don't waste your time on revenge. Because Hamlet was obsessed with the revenge of his father's death, he ended up dying along with his loved ones like Ophelia, Gertrude and Laertes. Polonius and Claudius had to die as well. The innocent people were the scapegoat for the fight between Claudius and Hamlet.
Another message I think is that don't use any corruption. Claudius, who used immoral mean to obtain his crown, ambition and queen, ended up dying as a result. It teaches us the lesson that if you use any unethical methods to obtain what we want, we are going to be paid for it, like Claudius. Corruption cannot be justified by any other reasons.
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