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Comparing Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Three Messages that can be inferred from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.) Almost no worthy literary text of importance has no themes or messages in it. It is nearly essential to have a meaning behind the writing. Not even the whimsical pieces done by famous children’s authors are simply words. This is the same for writers of the past and writers of the present, and certainly will be for the writers of the future. People, especially literary scholars, are always searching, looking for the hidden messages put in front of their eyes in the form of text. This truth can also be said for persons watching movies. Movies are generally given in the form of entertainment, more so than books, but with the right direction, movies can be used to portray special messages to their audience as well. This is true in the case of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard, which contain the messages of nothing is quite as it seems, genius’ are hidden under great disguises, and free will and fate are one in the same. …show more content…

To begin, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern appear to be interchangeable. Either answers to either name, and neither seem to mind. Next, when they are in the bath, both men see things one way only to find out they’re another. Rosencrantz believes he’s looking at a naked woman, when actually it is a man. Meanwhile Guildenstern is seeing people in places where they’re not. Next, the death of Polonius is shown in a new way no one would've guessed. It is truly Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s fault that old Polonius is struck by Hamlet because they scare him causing him to make a ruckus causing Hamlet to slay him thinking it was the

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“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can convey emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.” The written word and the moving image have always had their entwining roots deeply entrenched in similar narrative codes, both functioning at the level of implication, connotation and referentiality. But ever since the advent of cinema, they have been pitted against each other over formal and cultural peculiarities – hence engaging in a relationship deemed “overtly compatible, secretly hostile” (Bluestone 2).

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“Is there a choice” (Stoppard 43)? Based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Stoppard’s tragicomedy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, expands on the existential queries of two naive minor characters from Hamlet. In the opening act of Stoppard’s play, the pair are wandering aimlessly through a forest until they encounter an unusual group of travelling actors, known as the Tragedians. Led by an ominous character named the Player, the Tragedians reenact various scenarios for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The clever Player engages the two in different gambles, including one in which Rosencrantz eventually circumvents him.

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This film is the kind of thing that you didn’t know you needed until you have it, and then you want more of it. Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a work of genius. This is certainly an interesting idea; taking an old piece of literature, choosing some background characters, and making a narrative for them that does not disrupt the canon narrative. What is so genius about it is how brilliantly the playwright knows Shakespeare, and knows how to play as Shakespeare. The dialogue seems entirely Shakespearean, and the wit is a clever match.

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Hamlet killed Polonius right in front of Gertrude, thinking he was Claudius. (doc. C). That must have been terrifying for Gertrude; she did not deserve to witness that. Hamlet had no point to treat her in the way that he did.

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His death is caused when he is trying to prove his point to Claudius that Hamlet’s “madness” is from the love for his daughter. To prove this he tells the queen, “He will come straight. Look you lay home to him;...pray you to be round with him”(Shakespeare 3.4. 1-3/5). The irony in this quote is that Polonius's view on Hamlet’s madness wasn’t for the love of his daughter but for the man he was trying to prove his point

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“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is one of the more usual plays constructed by Tom Stoppard. The play may come off as a random sequence of events that the two main characters endure, but when aspects of the play are closely examined, there is a method to Stoppard’s writing. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are faced with choices and countless question throughout the play. The questions the main characters ask each other may seem important at the certain time they are asked, but they ask so many questions without any answers that their questions become obsolete. Stoppard makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern face the question do they want to actors in the play of life, which most readers don’t see because of all the other questions asked in the play.

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By not giving much of the descriptions, Stoppard purposely made them to be generic and common, meaning that their personalities are stereotypical. They do not have any detailed traits. For example, Rosencrantz seems to be easygoing because he is casually flipping the coin while Guildenstern is tensed because he is concerned about their situation. They have the exact opposite personalities. I believe that the purpose of this is so that the readers can easily relate to the characters depending on which generic personalities they have.

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