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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
Honestly, a banger. I’ve decided that seeing the play definitely counts as reading it (thanks, Shakespeare in the park). This has so many frequently quoted lines in it, it’s insane. I had not picked up on them all when I read it in high school. I realized having Letters to Cleo sing “Cruel to be Kind” at the end of 10 Things I Hate About You was yet another Shakespeare reference. It was helpful that I had just read the Iliad and Odyssey and also seeing Hamlet is helpful now that I’m reading Ulysses, so it really fit into my self-made syllabus. RIP Ophelia, he didn’t deserve you.
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
- hamlet was lowkey a little bitch
- ophelia was a bad bitch until she went crazy but all bad bitches are a little insane
- laertes flop
- claudius and gertrude lowkey flop
- wtf happened to hamlet sr???
- ophelia was a bad bitch until she went crazy but all bad bitches are a little insane
- laertes flop
- claudius and gertrude lowkey flop
- wtf happened to hamlet sr???
Bestie was bamboozled reading this and most definitively will do a re-read.