Let me bring your attention to , Sheakspares novel. In , Hamlet’s father is killed by his nephew Claudius, and Claudius soon successes the throne. That night on the rampart, the Ghost appears to Hamlet, introducing him as his father. He told Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius and demanding that Hamlet avenge him. However, Hamlet didn’t call the ghost as ‘father’. Instead, he called him as ‘the illusion of father’, since he continually doubted the ghost’s reliability and its trustworthiness. Hamlet’s attitude to this incident is related to the topic we want to say to the audience. Please keep he’s attitude in mind throughout the presentation. The famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato once said, “Everything that exists in this world, is a duplicate of the original.” And this intrigued me very much. I mean, what we think as a real chair, real table: everything is only a copy? And then I started to wonder. ‘If everything is a duplicate, what is the original?’, or more specifically, “Where is the original?” Actually, we call the original of an object as “Idea.” Let me give you a quick example. Say that you’re …show more content…
Like Hamlet, we must ask back in our daily life. Am I thinking what has been injected by others? Is my values my own, creative, democratic, meaningful values? Or am I living inside other’s objective, other’s world, other’s spectrum which has been created by someone? It one could independently interpret, think, and distinguish reality and virtual reality, hyper-reality can be a playground which gives you unlimited opportunity, just like the ones who uses Facebook for communicaton itself, not in the way of being addicted of creating cyber ego. However, to the ones who unquestioningly accommodate their world, hyper reality can be a Panopticon, a jail with no prisoner’s privacy. Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident that they are acting on their own free