Class Blog #2

Now that the story has really started to progress, we know a lot about Hamlet and how he acts in front of others and when he is alone.  When Hamlet is alone, he is usually very upset, depressed and angry, or a mixture of the three.  When he is alone, he sits with the thoughts in his own head and speaks of his hardships.  He even begins to ponder the meaning of life and why he is even on earth. As Hamlet is alone, the reality of his life kicks in and sadness pours out of him like the blood poured from his father's ears.  When Hamlet is with Ophelia, Gertrude, Horatio, and Claudius, he appears to be a bit of a different person.  It's almost as if he goes with the flow of life as he is with these people.  As his mother is spending her life with the man that murdered his father, he says nothing and keeps quiet.  As he is in love with Ophelia, he goes along with it, tells her that he loves her, and doesn't seem to display his true depression.  I believe that Shakespeare creates Hamlet's character as so because if he dwelled on the depressed Hamlet who sulks over his messed up family, then the plot would go nowhere and we wouldn't be able to see the character that Hamlet develops into by the end of the play.