Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Dreams

"Dreams", Hamlet says. During his soliloquoy, he focuses on three things: Sleep, death, and dreams. Sleep - because he is tired, and obviously needs some rest. Death - probably because he is sort of overwhelmed with his dad asking him to take revenge on his uncle. But dreams? What could dreams mean for him? What would Hamlet dream about?

Maybe Hamlet is talking about the dreams which present themselves while you are sleeping. In that case, he might just be referring to the whole sleep issue again. However, if he means dreams as in 'my goal in life' or 'this is what I want to do someday', then that still doesn't lead me anywhere. Sleeping dreams would probably just be a reoccurance of the whole revenge bit, and for his ultimate dream, or goal in life, what could that possibly be? We know that he doesn't really want to kill the uncle (or else he would have done it by now). It could be that he wants to just live happily ever after with Ophelia. Or, that he dreams of someday as King. But to tell you the truth, I can't really picture him "dreaming" of doing anything. Honestly, I think that he says "dream" with a voice of someone who will doesn't have a dream. One who doesn't want life to go on, sees nothing for himself in the future, nothing to look forward to.

So...

He most likely will commit suicide at the end of the play, seeing as he has no initiative to do anything in the days to come.

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