Research Paper On Hamlet

Hamlet In Class Essay Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare around the 1600s that highlights what vengeance can do to people and how it changes the soul. Much like any other series that has come to life on the big screen, there are noticeable differences between the book and the film such as how they dress, speak, and much more. Compared to the text, the film made reader's imaginations of how the play is interpreted into reality, though with noticeable changes, helped readers visualize how the play would actually have looked like during the time it was written.

To start off, the emotions felt during some scenes in the text can be interpreted differently from person to person while the film clearly shows how the characters felt

He learned that Claudius and the suspects killed his father and that his mother might have been involved with the murder. While the mind is a powerful place, it is challenging to fully grasp the emotions a character is feeling just through text alone. The film, however, portrays the scene as changing from anger, to sadness, to rage suddenly much like how many would react if they were in a similar situation. The actor during this scene sells the role of Hamlet, which assists viewers to understand how Hamlet feels and how much pain he is experiencing. It was not only in this scene either where the actor aids the viewers in understanding how the characters in Hamlet are feeling but in other scenes shown throughout the film. One instance of this is A1, S2, 130-160 when Hamlet is making one of his first soliloquies, he is showing extreme hatred towards Claudius and Gertrude because she remarried so soon after her earlier husband's death. Not only does Gertrude remarry, but Claudius takes over as the King of Denmark instead of Hamlet who is next in line for the throne. The text only says how enraged Hamlet is, while the film shows how he feels about the entire ordeal. This is only one of the many examples of how the

The film shows how each character interacts with one another using both emotions and lines from the script made by Shakespeare coupled with how Branagh interprets each of the relationships making the viewers feel more immersed in the story. For example, Claudius and Gertrude's relationships are seen as mostly bland and many of the scenes show neither characters laughing nor smiling toward one another. Their relationship is similar to how it is portrayed in the book because, in many of the scenes in the text, Claudius is ordering Gertrude around while Gertrude only obeys his command which is similar to how the film interpreted their relationship. Another example of relationships between the characters is between Hamlet and Ophelia. In the text, it can be interpreted that their relationship was toxic and Ophelia really did not have feelings for Hamlet. While in the film, some of the scenes show a resemblance to the text when it comes to showing the toxicity of their relationship, one of the scenes of the film, shows them sharing moments of intimacy. This scene was not mentioned in the text which gives their relationship a whole new side and gives viewers a better understanding of their relationship. With the relationships of bother Gertrude and Ophelia being toxic in a way, it begs the question of how women are