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If your grandmother had four wheels she might be a grabage truck. But she hasn't, so there's no point speculating on the rest. A common danger for students is to step outside the play and sermonize as if the characters were real live people capable of reforming. The job before you is NOT to tell the characters what they should have done, but to look at what Sh is saying by having them do what he has them do. And his story is far less about Thou Shalts and Thou Shalt Nots than it is about Why and How. He doesn't condemn his characters; he tries to understand their thinking and feelings. Instead od saying "Hamlet should have doen this," say "Given that Hamlet did that, why did he do that?" (Incidentally, your sort of intro, starting with "This is a great play full of ideas," etc. is FAR too broad. Dive right in: "A key question of HAMLET is...."Posted by Hamlet on April 01, 1997 at 09:21:27
In Reply to "HAMLET AND RELIGION>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>READ THIS!!" posted by Aragorn on March 30, 1997 at 23:56:42
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