Thursday, June 25, 2015

What is an appropriate tag line for the character Hamlet in Hamlet, with an explanation?

I assume you want a tag line to describe
Hamlet?


I would say, "Hamlet: a man with a plan...kind
of."


He knows that he needs to take revenge on his uncle,
so first he makes a plan to see if his uncle is really guilty.  He tries to get Ophelia
to tell him, but just ends up treating her really badly, leading her to kill
herself.


Then he has the players act out his father's
murder.  That goes okay and he does find that his uncle killed his father.  After that,
the plan goes somewhat off the path he has chosen.


Hamlet
cannot seem to bring himself to actually kill his uncle, even when he knows he is
guilty.  Hamlet tries to stab Claudius, but he does so through a curtain (not the plan)
and ends up killing Polonius!


No matter what, Hamlet seems
to make a plan, but he can never actually follow through all the way.  He is a man with
a plan, but it never works out for him and he dies tragically.

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