Technicalities

Well, remember that blog post I made about one month ago about my future predictions on Hamlet? Well it turns out I wasn't completely off. Goooooo me! Okay, I will admit that I may have gotten a few of the details wrong, like how everyone dies, but at least I was right about everyone dying… well everyone except for Horatio. But lets see what I got right. Claudius, Gertrude and Hamlet die, there is a sword fight and poison involved. I think that is a pretty good considering that this is the only time i have read Hamlet. Now, I was wrong about how they died… except Claudius does get stabbed by Hamlet, just not exactly how I thought he would. I was also wrong about when in the play this would all take place, I thought it would happen during Hamlet’s reenactment play of his father’s death, but it happened when he was fencing with Laertes. Minor technicalities, right? I can say I was surprised that Ophelia, Laertes and Polonius were involved, I thought their characters would not play a serious role in Hamlet’s death, yet Laertes was the one who stabbed Hamlet to death due to Ophelia dying which ultimately was caused by Polonius’ death. Crazy how everything adds up, if Hamlet hadn't killed Polonius he could have never died… well maybe. He did have a hit placed on his head from Claudius, but that’s another minor technicality. Overall I really did enjoy Hamlet, especially compared to Shakespeare's other play *cough* Romeo and Juliet *cough*.