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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
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.
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
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A tense play. All the characters have great depth, especially Hamlet and his spiral into madness.
yes this made me like hamnet more. i wish i had read it first a little bit, but i don’t think it matters too much.
so many iconic shakespeare lines come from this??? of course i knew “to be or not to be”, like duh,, but “the lady doth protest too much” ??? didn’t know that was hamlet!! “brevity is the soul of wit” ??? same thing! i’ve been quoting hamlet this whole time????
so many iconic shakespeare lines come from this??? of course i knew “to be or not to be”, like duh,, but “the lady doth protest too much” ??? didn’t know that was hamlet!! “brevity is the soul of wit” ??? same thing! i’ve been quoting hamlet this whole time????