Indira Ghose's Interpretation Of Hamlet
Hamlet! Will that play ever get old?
There is much to be taken from the play Hamlet. As history shown us this play has been scrutinize a million times over and yet even today we can still find a new prospective in which to look at the play. That in part is due to the fact that the play’s complexity that has left it opened to many interpretations. Nevertheless we also tend to view other’s interpretation of the play and critique their works.
Can Hamlet be compared to today’s society? A Ms. Linda Charnes tackles this idea in her writing “The Hamlet formerly known as Prince“, Charnes compares Hamlet to middle-class Americans. Charnes asks the question, “But what can middle-class Americans possibly have in common with this Prince”? Is it …show more content…
As Indira Ghose points out in her article “Jesting with Death: Hamlet in the Graveyard” at the time Hamlet had been written, death was something that had been talk about in a jesting manner for centuries prior. So it was common for someone to find humor in death, if there was some to be found. Hamlet in the graveyard was not completely a humorous seen. It more so showed a separation between two society statuses. Hamlet asks a question of why the gravedigger doesn’t take his work more seriously. Death was looked at in a manner that is far different than how it is today. “To the medieval mind, laughter marked one’s triumph over the specious threat of evil and the illusion of death” (Ghose 1005). Death was feared so to overcome that fear people found it necessary to joke about it. As time progressed so did many people’s civility. What one would joke about or what one laughed at became a deciding factor of his social status. The very art in the medieval times also captures the tradition of finding comic relief in joking about death as we can see an example of this depicted in the Dance with Death motif. “Interestingly, the Dance of Death motif becomes popular precisely at the same time as a concern for individuality displaced the early Christian notion of collective death” (1005). As time progressed individual views on death change and as a results more attention was given to that which was the norm. So how much has actually changed since the medieval times. I found an example that there is still existence is on the same level or might even exceed the humor of that the medieval times. “It was 3:00 am and three tired emergency room residents were wondering why the pizza they 'd ordered hadn 't come yet. A nurse interrupted their pizza complaints with a shout: "GSW Trauma One--no pulse, no blood pressure." The residents rushed to meet the gurney and immediately
There is much to be taken from the play Hamlet. As history shown us this play has been scrutinize a million times over and yet even today we can still find a new prospective in which to look at the play. That in part is due to the fact that the play’s complexity that has left it opened to many interpretations. Nevertheless we also tend to view other’s interpretation of the play and critique their works.
Can Hamlet be compared to today’s society? A Ms. Linda Charnes tackles this idea in her writing “The Hamlet formerly known as Prince“, Charnes compares Hamlet to middle-class Americans. Charnes asks the question, “But what can middle-class Americans possibly have in common with this Prince”? Is it …show more content…
As Indira Ghose points out in her article “Jesting with Death: Hamlet in the Graveyard” at the time Hamlet had been written, death was something that had been talk about in a jesting manner for centuries prior. So it was common for someone to find humor in death, if there was some to be found. Hamlet in the graveyard was not completely a humorous seen. It more so showed a separation between two society statuses. Hamlet asks a question of why the gravedigger doesn’t take his work more seriously. Death was looked at in a manner that is far different than how it is today. “To the medieval mind, laughter marked one’s triumph over the specious threat of evil and the illusion of death” (Ghose 1005). Death was feared so to overcome that fear people found it necessary to joke about it. As time progressed so did many people’s civility. What one would joke about or what one laughed at became a deciding factor of his social status. The very art in the medieval times also captures the tradition of finding comic relief in joking about death as we can see an example of this depicted in the Dance with Death motif. “Interestingly, the Dance of Death motif becomes popular precisely at the same time as a concern for individuality displaced the early Christian notion of collective death” (1005). As time progressed individual views on death change and as a results more attention was given to that which was the norm. So how much has actually changed since the medieval times. I found an example that there is still existence is on the same level or might even exceed the humor of that the medieval times. “It was 3:00 am and three tired emergency room residents were wondering why the pizza they 'd ordered hadn 't come yet. A nurse interrupted their pizza complaints with a shout: "GSW Trauma One--no pulse, no blood pressure." The residents rushed to meet the gurney and immediately