"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare is one of the most Famous tragedies ever written. Quotes from this play are still used commonly today, hundreds of years after it being first written. The plot itself has been copied many times, however in my opinion, none have outdone the original play.

This Blog serves one purpose, to pay tribute to the famous quotes, and scenes that made hamlet the great tragedy.

Monday, June 7, 2010

The Romance...

Before the Death of His Father, Hamlet was a young man in collage, courting Polonius' daughter Orphelia. She causes a debate as to why Hamlet is mad, is he love sick or truly mad? However that is cleared up early in the play after he tells her to go to a nunnery.

After Hamlet accidentally kills her father, Orphelia goes insane. And while Hamlet is in England she drowns herself in a stream.

When Hamlet finds her dead apon arriving home from England he is enraged. He gets into a fight in Orphelia's grave with her Brother Laertes, Hamlet clams that he always loved Orphelia, and that he loved her more than Laertes.



"Lay her i' the earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!"
-Laertes after Orphelia's death

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