A Remix on Hamelt

I chose to do a remix on Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1

What is going on in the scene is the King and Queen are trying to find out what is driving Hamlet crazy. The two spies that they sent on him are Rosencratz and Guildenstern. What they tell the King and Queen is that he was cool when they met up with him. He wasn't excited to see them but he wasn't mad.  He was acting stranger than what he would be normally acting like.

The next thing they want to do is have Ophelia act as bait. They are hoping that Ophelia is the cause of his craziness and the love is what the cause is. The queen is desperatly hoping that she is the true cause of this. She wants her to bring him back to normal. Ophelia does agree to this and she acts as bait.

Hamlet comes in and starts talking about death and how he should kill himself but he is not quit sure what is on the other side when he dies. In his to be or to be speech I feel as if he is depressed. He is not sure wether to sit back and take all the terrible things that are happening to him or to end all of his troubles. He realizes that like everyone else he is a coward and this is why many people do not kill themselves. After this whole speech he tell Ophelia to remember all the horrible things he has done which are his sins.

After this Ophelia kinda brushes what he says off and asks how his day was. He say it was ok and she wants to repeat something that he has told her. Hamelt really doesn't want her to and claims that he never said that. Then Hamelt goes on to say that her honesty should not measure up to her beauty and that she is just a pretty face. Soon everyone will just care about looks. Hamlet tells her that he never loved her. He tells her to become a nun so that she could never marry anyone. If she does choose to marry than he wants them to be cursed. Hamelt does not want them to married becuase them their children will be like sinners. In his mind she is better off a nun.

After he leaves Ophelia is left shocked and knowing that his is not the same man that she knew. The king now believes it is something else that is driving Hamelt crazy but Polonius still thinks that it is love. They do not want to leave him without someone watching him.

In this scene I think Hamlet is telling himself if I can't be happy then no one else can. If he can't have his love then Ophelia can't love either. If the king and queen can't be content then by acting as if he is crazy then he will drive them crazy. He wants to drive Polonious crazy because he did not approve of his love life. If I can't be happy and content in my life then no one around me can.