Sunday, March 1, 2009
Family Relations
In Hamlet the familial relationships play a role of crazy, twisted, not in line at all, and disheveled just like families are supposed to be, or at least how normal families are. So this story to me isn't one that is out of the ordinary, except for the section of the book where everyone does at the same time. Between son and father the connection seemed to be just fine, as well as the son and mother connection. What came to be confusing just like kids are all over the world, is when one of their single parents gets remarried. Like Hamlet when his father dies and his mother remarries to Hamlet's uncle. Such as confused kids are when this happens to them in their normal everyday lives, is the question...does the son or daughter call him "Dad"?, which is a word that some get rushed into saying way too quickly because they feel that they need to. That they might feel that they won't have a normal family if there isn't both a "Mother" and a "Father" in the household. The main thing that I enjoyed about Hamlet's character was that he thought things freely, did what he wanted, said what he wanted, said what he was thinking, said it whenever he wanted, and kept it real throughout this novel.
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"they won't have a normal family if there isn't both a "Mother" and a "Father" in the household."
Mike (this is you, isn't it? Or is it Ian? Dang, I wish you guys had logins that were easier to identify!).
Anyway, I like what you're after here, and I think that a focus on familial relations, single-parenting, and the relevance of this aspect of the play in modern times could provide the makings of an excellent essay. What you need to do first, however, is identify a speech--or a part of a speech--that will provide you with an entry into this potentially rich topic.
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