Board 8 > Save My Hamlet Scene - Day 17

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1 save per hour.
4 saves from unique users to be safe.
last scene is eliminated.

1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

Eliminated:
5. 5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
6. 4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
7. 3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only
8. 1.1 - ghost appears during night watch
9. 3.2 - The Mousetrap
10. 4.7 - Claudius persuades Laertes to follow his plan for killing Hamlet; Ophelia drowns
11. 1.2 - wedding banquet; Hamlet learns about ghost; "sullied/solid flesh"
12. 4.6 - Horatio reads letter from Hamlet about being captured by pirates
13. 3.3 - Claudius confesses and prays; "now might I do it pat"
14. 4.3 - Hamlet eventually reveals where he put the body; Claudius plans to have Hamlet killed in England
15. 1.3 - sending Laertes off; advice for Ophelia
16. 1.4 - waiting for ghost; ghost beckons Hamlet to follow
17. 4.4 - Fortinbras on his way to Poland; "how all occasions do inform against me"
18. 4.2 - R & G beg Hamlet to tell them where he put Polonius's body
19. 2.1 - Reynaldo; Ophelio affrighted
20. 4.1 - Gertrude tells Claudius what happened; Claudius determines to send Hamlet away

Yes, poor Yorick.......
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1.5

3.1

2.2
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5.2
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3.1

Remaining:
*1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
*2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
**3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

alright, an actual write-up:

The barrier between life and death has been porous from the beginning, but increasingly so towards the end. There is something rotten in Denmark, and here it is literalized as Hamlet and Horatio stand in a mass grave. Yorick is brougt back to life through words, as Hamlet begins his speech with remembrance and ends in the present tense, speaking to the skull directly. Ophelia is revised through Hamlet's claim. Hamlet redefining his relationship with Ophelia when she's dead foreshadows his own fate and is maybe even a bit karmic, but more on that later. Then, of course, the barrier is porous as Laertes and Hamlet leap into the grave before their deaths.

The clowns, as they do, speak truth through humour and discuss some major themes. Has Hamlet, like Ophelia, been allowing himself to be taken by the currents? The water analogy suggests two truths that look the same - Either Ophelia drowned herself, or water drowned her. Water is fate or fortune, and if taken to its logical conclusion, calls into question if we have any free will at all. This question is subverted when, officially, Ophelia's death was an accident and she is to have a Christian burial. Hamlet has been searching for a meaningful death, and through it a meaningful life, but increasingly it seems out of one's control to define themselves.

Hamlet going off at Laerte's show of grief puts us back in inky cloak territory. He's talking about himself moreso than Laertes, and it comes off like an unutterable warning to a fellow traveler from someone who's been down that road. He lists all the ridiculous things he could do, but in the end what he'll really do is rant.
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aww rip my favorite scene

2.2
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2.2

3.1
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Remaining:
*1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
***2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
***3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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bump
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1.5

1.5
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3.1

Remaining:
***1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
***2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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5.2

5.2

1.5

5.2
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I think 2.2 is out.
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oh you fuckers got rid of horatio
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