A quick comparison, complete with spoilers
I like Hamlet so much more than I like Romeo and Juliet.
While both use excellent writing style, Romeo and Juliet, imho, is about two drama queens in a high school romance.
While Hamlet is about love, hate, revenge and of course, irony. How must it feel to suddenly find out that you've just murdered the wrong person? Not only the wrong person, but your girlfriend's father!
*stab stab stab!
*lifts curtain
"woops, my bad..."
There goes that relationship.
Think of how it must just tear his conscience apart. Ophelia is insane. She died because of it. Know why she's insane, Hamlet? Do ya know? Its cause you killed her father. You know how much you hate Claudius for killing YOUR dad? What must she think of you now loverboy?
And her brother? You are responsible for the death of his entire family and yet, despite of it all, Leartes somehow manages to forgive you.
Sorta makes you wonder which of the characters you would be like.. The one who killed his brother and then married his sister-in-law... The angsty lover seeking revenge? The girl who was driven mad by the angsty lover's outraged murder of her father? Or the one who plans the angsty lover's death for killing off his family, then forgives him at the last moment, when he becomes a victim of his own treachery?
Did I miss anyone?
Oh, there was the queen who may or may not have known of the intricate killings from the beginning, but was nonetheless killed when she drank from a poisoned cup that was meant for her son.
And to think all Shakespeare could come up with for R/J was a chain reaction of murders resulting more or less from rival gangfights in the streets of fair Verona where we lay our scene.
While both use excellent writing style, Romeo and Juliet, imho, is about two drama queens in a high school romance.
While Hamlet is about love, hate, revenge and of course, irony. How must it feel to suddenly find out that you've just murdered the wrong person? Not only the wrong person, but your girlfriend's father!
*stab stab stab!
*lifts curtain
"woops, my bad..."
There goes that relationship.
Think of how it must just tear his conscience apart. Ophelia is insane. She died because of it. Know why she's insane, Hamlet? Do ya know? Its cause you killed her father. You know how much you hate Claudius for killing YOUR dad? What must she think of you now loverboy?
And her brother? You are responsible for the death of his entire family and yet, despite of it all, Leartes somehow manages to forgive you.
Sorta makes you wonder which of the characters you would be like.. The one who killed his brother and then married his sister-in-law... The angsty lover seeking revenge? The girl who was driven mad by the angsty lover's outraged murder of her father? Or the one who plans the angsty lover's death for killing off his family, then forgives him at the last moment, when he becomes a victim of his own treachery?
Did I miss anyone?
Oh, there was the queen who may or may not have known of the intricate killings from the beginning, but was nonetheless killed when she drank from a poisoned cup that was meant for her son.
And to think all Shakespeare could come up with for R/J was a chain reaction of murders resulting more or less from rival gangfights in the streets of fair Verona where we lay our scene.

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