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