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Post by lukejoo on Mar 15, 2015 11:51:30 GMT
In the story, Hamlet intended to simply avenge his father by killing Claudius, but he ended up killing not only the murderer but his friends, his lover, his mother, and even turned his entire country into the hands of a foreign prince. Yes, he had good intentions but the results were totally screwed up. So, does this remind you of anyone else? In fiction or reality, who else similarly had good intentions but ended up causing a disaster?
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Post by sergeyfen on Mar 15, 2015 13:28:47 GMT
I have recently watched a movie "secret life of Walter Mitty" i don't really think it is that close of an example but it's the best i have got so far. Walter Mitty dreams about being surgeon, helping people, etc. Mitty does not triumph through few of his fantasies and at the end of the story he was been shot by a firing squad. I think his intentions back fired because he had such perfect intentions but spent on just day dreaming about them, he was never able to make them come true.
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Post by estherchoi on Mar 15, 2015 13:50:07 GMT
This reminds me of the story called 'The Sound of Thunder'. The main character rode the time machine and went back to the dinosaur time period to do dinosaur hunts. The rule was easy; shoot the one with red marks and never go off track. The main character, however, accidentally went off track and stepped on a butterfly. When he came back to the present time, everything changed, English changed, and so on. The main character than died as well as a punishment.
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Post by dhiya on Mar 15, 2015 14:07:10 GMT
I couldn't think of something really similar, but I came up with the movie 'The Mist'. It was set in the middle of some big, weird creatures invasion. In the end, the father shot all of his family members because he thought it would be less painful, compared to being eaten by the creatures that surrounded them. When it was his turn to kill himself, he'd lost all the bullets. He cried and stepped out of the car, screamed to the creatures to kill him already. He waited, nothing happened. Few seconds later, a group of soldiers, tanks came. It turned out that they were being rescued, because of the 'mist' he couldn't really know if the creatures were still there. It was tragic. He had good intention, but caused misery to himself and others.
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Post by crystalcao on Mar 15, 2015 14:13:03 GMT
I think Hamlet is kind of stupid, he had a chance to kill Claudius but he hesitated. That caused his death and other people's death. I think people should be decisive when they try to do something.
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Post by elisalee on Mar 15, 2015 14:22:54 GMT
I think Hamlet's story can be related to real life situations. Everyone has those moments when you didn't intend to end up in a bad way, but it happens. For example, although this isn't a serious example, when you say something to your close friend, you didn't mean it to be offending, but the friend takes it in a bad way.
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Post by James on Mar 15, 2015 14:25:30 GMT
I think the movie peoples remind me of Hamlet. In the movie, the main character accidentally becomes the one who spread out a rumor that hurts his friend's reputation. In an attempt to correct this, the main dude spreads another rumor which happened to worsen the situation.
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Post by jimim on Mar 15, 2015 14:57:46 GMT
In some movies, there are similar characters like Hamlet that try to take revenge to others. Simply some characters choose to do everything for their revenge. For example in the "I saw devil"(Korean Movie), the protagonist killed one guy because that guy killed protagonist's girlfriend. So I think there are many characters that are similar to Hamlet.
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Post by chrishong on Mar 15, 2015 14:59:42 GMT
I guess Harry Potter was similar to Hamlet because Harry's main intention was to defeat and vanquish Voldemort, but ended up losing loved ones or having them endangered such as Dobby, Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Lupin and his wife, his friends Ron & Hermiones, etc. (basically everyone else in the story).
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Post by agneslianaputri on Mar 15, 2015 15:00:38 GMT
I've read a novel called Edgar Sawtelle that's based around Hamlet. Edgar is a deaf boy who lives on a dog farm with his mom Trudy and father Gar. Everything's great until Edgar's uncle Claude (do any of these names sound familiar?? CLAUDIUS) comes to stay, and Gar is killed. Edgar believes that Claude is to blame and sets out with his faithful dog, Almondine, to crack the mystery.
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Post by woojong on Mar 15, 2015 15:38:55 GMT
Hamlet for me, reminds me of Anne from the novel "My Louisiana Sky". Both characters are grown enough externally, but not fully internally, often being swayed by emotions too often. Especially when Anne in the novel had to choose between living with her parents or her aunt made me think of Hamlet's dilemma of revenging for his father.
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Post by saimoon1 on Mar 15, 2015 18:26:05 GMT
I think Romeo from Romeo and Juliet, reminds me of Hamlet. Romeo was a young man in love as well. But nothing was going in his way, his love away from him because of difference in two families. But regardless, he fights to win her from her family. However, gets himself killed in the process.
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Post by brandonina on Mar 15, 2015 19:19:43 GMT
I think it some kind of reminds me of Harry Potter in that he loses one of his parents and is very emotional about it, also eventually avenging his father by killing the bad guy. Harry Potter surely has a good intention of taking a revenge and also killing someone who murdered his parents. But he causes a huge disaster. It is clear by the number of long books that were released focusing on events caused by Harry.
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Post by hansoo on Mar 15, 2015 21:48:01 GMT
Can't think of a specific character but it truly reminds of countless stories of movies where their main theme is revenge. Their parents die early, and they suffer from the emotional anger. They somehow succeed in revenge usually by murdering, but the end does not satisfy them.
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Post by misato on Mar 16, 2015 7:46:58 GMT
Hamlet remind me Julius Caesar. I mean as a story. Theres two story are both a lot of people will die in the end of story. It is very chaotic and I don't like both of end of story.
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