2. This scene introduces the concept that Hamlet is insane and Polonius’ scheme. Without this scene, we wouldn’t understand why Polonius took a complete turn about and is now pushing Ophelia to be with Hamlet.
3. I still don’t understand why Hamlet is pretending to be insane. Why does Polonius talk like such a retard? Why does Ophelia let her dad boss her around? Shakespeare wrote Romeo And Juliet; you would think he’s into the rebellious teenager thing.
4. “Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarreling, drabbing—you may go so far.” I think the word drabbing is a funny way to say prostitutes. “No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle.” I find it funny that it was so risky in that time to have your socks down and your hat off.
Act 2 Scene 2
5. I don’t like all this sneaky-sheaky stuff. It’s a lot of she doesn’t know I know she knows stuff. They should just get it all out in the open and duel it out Celebrity Death Match style. I want to see Hamlet pour that poison down Claudius’ ear.
6. Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet must not be very close friends. “I know the king and queen have sent for you.” Hamlet just comes out and says it. I would never spy on one of my friends or suspect them of spying on me. They can’t be that great of friends if they have such massive trust issues.
7. I wonder how it would feel to play such a dishonest, two-timing, piece of crap. The queen is now sending people to spy on her son, she cheats on her husband, and for all we know, she could have been in on the plot to kill the king. To play a liar watching a play there is a lot of acting.
Act 2 Scene 4
6. Horatio seems very protective over Hamlet. He doesn’t see himself as Hamlet’s friend, but instead as his servant. “It beckons you to go away,” Horatio says and then tries to hold Hamlet back and tells him not to go. I think Horatio looks up to Hamlet and would have secretly been disappointed if Hamlet hadn’t followed the ghost.
7. It would suck to be a ghost bent on revenge. You would think that in any afterlife you would obtain some divine knowledge that would allow you to understand that all of the petty things that happen on Earth don’t matter when you die. Apparently not though, if you’re willing to put your son up against a power-driven, homicidal maniac.