The clip starts off with Hamlet looking at himself in the mirror. His coat is open and he looks a little bit disheveled. Like with Tennant, the colors are cream and black with a checkerboard black and white floor reflected in the mirror that almost looks like it is leading us inside it. Branagh is resolute and firm in the way he speaks. He starts off his speech with the tone of debating the self that is in the mirror.
We get a better idea of the characters’ strengths and deficiencies. Most importantly, we get an understanding of the characters that allows us to better understand their actions within the play. This understanding in turn contributes to our suspension of disbelief, enabling us to feel like we know and sometimes even empathize with the characters of the play. The final result is an effective play that can both entertain and intrigue
To start with, in the original version as well as Branagh’s version of “Hamlet”, the “To be or not to be” soliloquy comes before Hamlets encounter with Ophelia, where as in Zeffirelli’s version of the play, Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy comes after the scene where he speaks with Ophelia. Also, Zeffirelli’s version doesn’t completely follow the original script word for word. I personally feel that Zeffirelli’s version is better in both of these regards. As far as the scene sequences, I feel that Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” had become more relevant after his encounter with Ophelia because that encounter only added to his frustration and broken heart, which could have helped further explain his reasoning for considering whether life is worth living or not. In regard to the faithfulness of the original language in the script, I believe that it is better to differentiate a small bit as Zeffirelli did.
Though they both deal with the same concept that he who hold great power is not far from or is already corrupted they are both presented in different ways. In both text power drives the plots in a way that creates high amounts of tension and suspense that keeps the audience intrigued. Both writers; Orwell and Shakespeare, use contrast between characters and inner conflict in very different ways. This is used in order to support the tension and suspense that was created. For example in the play Macbeth we are aware of Macbeth’s inner conflict which results in us (the audience) to sympathise with him.
According to many writers and scholars Hamlet changes from a slightly melancholy character into a gloomy depressed character. This idea can simply be revoked by a comparison of two quotes, one being expressed as early as Act I, scene one of the play, “how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world” (Shakespeare 26). The other in Act IV, "I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind" (Shakespeare 232), from these two quotes we learn that hamlet has not changed at all from the beginning of the play in terms of depression. In actuality he has just
In focusing on Macbeth, a figure from Scottish history, Shakespeare paid homage to his king’s Scottish lineage. Being Shakespeare’s shortest and bloodiest tragedy, Macbeth tells us a story of a man driven by ambition and fear. The porter opens the scene with a comedic change of tone from the bloody imagery and the dark tone of the previous scene. Unlike most of the other characters of noble birth like Macbeth and banquo etc, who speak in the iambic pentameter, the porter speaks in prose. This distinguishes his class an society when compared to Macbeth.
Every film and play version can stick as closely to the dialogue as possible, but his descriptions of Scrooge's personality and inner thoughts cannot be shown, only experienced though the medium of words on the page. His vivid descriptions of Marley and the three Spirits are brilliant, and can only be approximated on screen. Also, within the novel there is substantial amount of figurative language used by Dickens, it is used to help describe both the setting and the action at the same time. One of the first examples in the novel is a simile, “Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.” This figure of speech compares Old Marley to a door-nail, choosing the "deadness" of both of these objects as the point of comparison. Interestingly, Dickens himself goes on to mock this somewhat clichéd simile, asking what is dead about a doornail, but leaves us with it to describe Marley.
Consecutive misconceptions cause a fallacious interpretation of reality, broadcasted by the power of words, Hamlet’s greatest strength and weakness, which cause unpleasant tribulations to each character in the play. While Hamlet possessed an ear (and mind) that had the ability to filter fabrications, other characters appeared to be less fortunate in determining what seems to be and what is. One of the most interesting things in Hamlet is that every figure is predestined. The first individual we happen upon that is the first to perish, is King Hamlet, who was envenomed via his ear by his brother, Claudius. The ghost, having Claudius’s erosive and unethical ways in mind, vocalizes how these qualities will be undesirably executed in Denmark.
in the second half of the twentieth century in England, we are faced with the infuriating fact that Shakespeare is still our model.” - Peter Brooke As a poet of the Renaissance, Shakespeare wrote in the style and the language of his time. Shakespeare, along with other poets of the Renaissance, helped to bring back the writing style of the ancient Greeks. This style of poetry is called a sonnet and consists of fourteen-lines of verse. Shakespeare along with the other poets during the Renaissance also helped in establishing the use of iambic pentameter as well as other forms of poetry. The change to a more modern form of poetry began before Shakespeare.
Back at the Globe Theater, the peasents came to watch Shakespeare's plays as well as the wealthy nobles. Similarly, everybody in today's society has read one of his works or has seen a modern adaptation of one of his plays. Shakespeare was the greatest and most talented writer of his time, and has kept that title throughout the years to the present. He will always be one of the most memorable and significant writer in history, and will continue his legacy for years to