DRJ#4

DRJ#4

I feel that in this act that major drama was created with the newfound death and murder of Polonius.  Hamlet is on his way of completing his fulfillment of revenge on the murder of his father, and the tides have turned on Claudis. This was actually my favorite act so far with the drama and confrontation occurring.

Ophelia in this act is driven mad by the death of her father Polonius, and rightfully goes after the king and Gertrude for not having a proper bury.  She goes into singing as she maybe reverts into a simpler time in her life when she was with her father as it seemed as if they were close.  Even though, all convey the death of her to be suicide with the way of her death they want to give her a christian burial even though suicide is against their ways. They decide to provide the proper burial as “It must be se offendendo.”

Although suicide may seem like an obvious choice for the theme I decide rather to dive into revenge/forgiveness.  This theme plays throughout the scenes as Hamlet starts getting his revenge, Laertes does the same on the king as he receives the news of the death of his father which may have been an unintentional route of Hamlet trying to create redemption on his uncle without being traced back to himself.