"Player" from the point of view of Hamlet 1

By Steve

Sun, 21 Dec 2014
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The word "player" is used to describe the act of being a playboy without actually being a playboy. The player plays with women to figure out what their likes and dislikes are and manipulates them in such a way that the woman convinces herself that she likes this man or even loves him. The player then moves onto another woman and another woman until he finally gets the object of his desire.

In "Hamlet," the verb "play" is used in the phrase, "Will you play upon me?" Of course, the flute is the instrument being referred to. I believe I am right in saying this. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to look this up. But Hamlet plays upon each of the characters of the play to try to make them behave in a manner that he wants them to behave. Hamlet, through non-acting, becomes the prime mover.

 

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Submitted by VeraClark on

If a player uses a flute to magnetise his women, will he have even more manipulative power or will he just attract rats.

 

Submitted by Steve on

I looked up the text. The actually wording is to Guilderstern and it is "pipe" which could be a flute perhaps. It is related to "harmony" in the society.

 

Hamlet "plays" on people to try to make them commit suicide, and those who don't, he murders himself or other accidental events kill them.

Modern "players" make women fall in love with them and then they make them deeply depressed because they are used as a means to a final woman.

Hamlet finally murders himself in one sense although he is murdered by another.

It would have been simpler if he himself murdered himself and murdered Claudius outright.