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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

3.96 AVERAGE


A little overkill there Shakespeare.

My favorite.
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hamlet has become my favourite character. He is his own man. I'm quite speechless now. But I'll leave this here:

What makes Shakespeare so outrageously good is his ability to put the human condition into words better than anyone else I've seen in literature. Brooding over his lines feels like holding consciousness with all its facets and emotions from ire to joy, from exuberance to contemplation, to hold it bare betwixt your hands not in its original form (if it has any, and if it had it would probably be impossible to transcribe), but in an unfolding fractal yet crystallised form: Mandelbrot crystal. O 'tis the Renaissance for me!

A poem. Hamlet-inspired.

San Drowney


Inwardness, most o'rlook'd of qualia,    

exhibit in most men yet master'd by    

none, oft mistaken for a hedgehog's curling. 

To roll, to wallow in some weal or woe, 

an armor'd wheel that turns ad nauseam,

a mirror's mirror's bound to be witchcraft,  

like a Luciferian sea whose waves

beget more waves, the spirit caught in a 

spiral, and trapp'd inside a house of mirrors.  

The mind from terrors suffers yet the body  

ne'er budges, sits picture-like, still and pretty.
adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is probably the most absurd story I have ever read.
challenging medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes