"Player"-Hamlet 6

Hamlet is not someone who is really suited to be a player. His name, I believe, means "small village." There's something rustic about the sound of that word, Hamlet. Elsinore also fits Hamlet as a name. It is painted in black and white and gray. It is a dark, melancholy place like the personality of Hamlet.

Hamlet is a play about an isolated personality. In most of Shakespeare's tragedies, we confront characters that are out of place. They cannot play their roles in society like the characters of the comedies. They also cannot change or they change for the worse. At the end of their life, they have a sudden realization.

Hamlet's father, like the Gods of ancient Greek plays, gives him the mission of his life. He must justly kill his Uncle. Will that mean that he must marry his mother? No. He could marry Ophelia. But there is a psychological question that he must ask himself, "Did he want his father, Hamlet, dead?" Is he glad that he is dead and that Claudius is King. Things are rotten in Denmark, but does he really want to participate in the dirty game of politics?

Things are rotten in Denmark, but perhaps Denmark is meant to be destroyed by foreign invaders. Does Hamlet really care?

To ascertain the fact that the king is a murderer and lecher, that Polonius is a fishmonger, that Laertes is a noble fool, that Guiderstern and Rosenstein are Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, that Ophelia is a sentimental idiot and on and on and on is to ascertain the fact that people are idiots who will wear any garb if that makes them feel like they fit in in society. Most people do not even know why they wear the mask of certain social personae, only that, without it, they have no clue as to who they are.