Quick Notes from Hamlet.

Found these saved in my drafts. Might as well post them, right?
These notes were written in no particular order.





Ophelia  - "you are as good as a chorus my lord"

Chorus doesn't take part in play but sings. Ophelia is comparing Hamlet to the Greek chorus. 

- it isn't enough to just kill Claudius. Hamlet wants to send Claudius to hell, which is why he doesn't kill him while he's praying. 

- The ghost doesn't want Hamlet to kill Gertrude, rather let her live with her guilt.

-Hamlet seems clear of his want and ability to murder Claudius once he stabs Polonius on accident. Even after stabbing Polonius, Hamlet seems to have no regret of having acted without thinking. Come to think of it, I think this may be the first time in the play Hamlet has acted before thinking, or even acted before giving us some massive speech about his failure and what-not. Anyway, 

Hamlet, after killing Polonius...

Savagely angry. Verbally attacking his mother. Hamlet has transformed from a character of words to a character of action.

-Claudius confesses for his sins and asks God for forgiveness. He also asks if there is a way to be forgiven but keep all of the things he gained for these sins. I think the answer is no, and Claudius would not be forgiven in the eyes of God. 

Transmedia Poetry

Summons
by Robert Francis

"Keep me from going to sleep to

Come wake me up. Come any houro soon" Like this:

"Or if I go to sleep too soon
Of night." Sounds like he wants this:

"Come whistling up the road.
Stomp on the porch. Bang on the door."
wikiHow: How to Kick Down a Door
"Make me get out of bed and come
And let you in and light a light.

Tell me the northern lights are on
And make me look. 

Or tell me clouds
Are doing something to the moon
They never did before, and show me.

See that I see. Talk to me till
I'm half as wide awake as you
And start to dress wondering why
I ever went to bed at all."
Why Do We Need Sleep?
"Tell me the walking is superb.
Quotes about walking:
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” 
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is."
― Ellen DeGeneres
"Not only tell me but persuade me.
You know I'm not too hard persuaded."