Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Something's Rotten and Procrastinating
Hamlet, like most of the other plays this semester, I've never really studied. And certainly what I haven't studied, I learned that I had. Hamlet is as much a part of our modern lexicon and psychology as any recent character, and most obviously, much much more. It is hard for me to even start to quantify Hamlet's impact on our everyday life, other than to say, infinite. And that is to say that infinite may represent zero and it moves out from there.
Hamlet is obssesed with acting, plays, put-ons and scenes. All these things encapsulate our modern society, always looking for that 15 minutes of fame in front of the camera. Hamlet is a guy who procrastinates...everything. He can't make up his mind because his mind is easily distracted. He gives his father a promise at the beginning of the play and it takes 5 acts for him to come to terms with this promise. Not necessarily "coming to terms with it" as it was "getting around to it". He finally, as he says, "Let[s] be". He finally finds that his life is a futile practice in well, futility.
Hamlet is obssesed with acting, plays, put-ons and scenes. All these things encapsulate our modern society, always looking for that 15 minutes of fame in front of the camera. Hamlet is a guy who procrastinates...everything. He can't make up his mind because his mind is easily distracted. He gives his father a promise at the beginning of the play and it takes 5 acts for him to come to terms with this promise. Not necessarily "coming to terms with it" as it was "getting around to it". He finally, as he says, "Let[s] be". He finally finds that his life is a futile practice in well, futility.
# posted by Collin @ 8:10 PM 
