My Featured Novel

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

I. About the Novel

In Hamlet Shakespeare weaves the dominant motif of disease into every scene to illustrate the corrupt state of Denmark and Hamlet's all-consuming pessimism. Images of ulcers, pleurisy, full body pustules, apoplexy, and madness parallel the sins of drunkenness, espionage, war, adultery, and murder, to reinforce the central idea that Denmark is dying. To Hamlet the very air he breathes is "a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." Hamlet himself is a victim of a deep melancholy that results in fits of mania, and, until very late in the drama, he rots with a diseased will, unable to take the necessary action to revenge his father and save his country. 

Works Cited （参考文献）

Shakespeare Online Web 6 June .2016
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

Video Sparknotes: Summary of Hamlet

Photographs of Hamlet in Performance

『ハムレット』　Hamlet(1996）

Director, screenplay, starring Kenneth Branagh.

It became the faithful more than a full movie NOW 4 hours in an attempt that epic in the original (in the movie theater came in the middle break time.)


Set modern in nestled were transferred to the 19 century, Roque renowned Blenheim Palace as a residence of Churchill.
Music
Theme song Placido Domingo
Location
Blenheim Palace

... Lord is Marlborough Duke of this house have a cameo appearance in the general role of Fortin brass.
cast

Kenneth Branagh .... Hamlet
Derek Jacobi .... Claudius
Julie Christie .... Gertrude
Kate Winslet .... Ophelia

Nicholas Farrell .... Horatio
Richard Briers .... Polonius
Michael Maloney .... Laertes
Rufus Sewell .... Fortinbras

Brian Blessed .... ghost
Richard Attenborough .... British ambassador
Billy Crystal .... First Gravedigger
Charles Daish .... Stage Manager
Judi Dench .... Hecuba
Gerard Depardieu .... Reynaldo
Timothy Spall .... Rosencrantz
Reece Dinsdale .... Guildenstern
Ken Dodd .... Yorick
Rosemary Harris .... Player Queen
Charlton Heston .... Player King
John Gielgud .... Priam
Jack Lemmon .... Marcellus
Duke of Marlborough .... Fortinbras's General
Simon Russell Beale .... Second Gravedigger
Robin Williams .... Osric

Works Cited （参考文献）

シェイクスピア作品の映画化Web 6 June.2016
http://britannia.xii.jp/cinema/shakespeare.html

III. About the Author

William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare,an alderman and a successful glover originally from snitter field,and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning famer.He was born in Strat ford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564.His actual date of birth remains unknown,but is traditionally observed on 23april 1616.He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son Rowe was the first biographer to record the tradition,repeated by Johnson,that shakespeare retired to Stratford゛Some years before his health".Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616,at the age of 52.

Works Cited （参考文献）

ウィリアム・シェイクスピア-wikipedia Web 7 June. 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point -Fatal flaw (心の弱さ）

• Fatal flaw is weak point of heart.  
• I'll follow you to heaven soon.I'm dead ,Horatio.But you still live.
• The reason he died for attempting suicide for conviction him.But I think he escaped from commit a crime by suicide. And Hamlet made Horatio that is hamlet's friend live and told about hamlet, Hamlet makes himself hero.I think that Horatio will talk Hamlet such as hero.This interpretation is weak point of  his heart.

B. Reaction Point - Irony (予期しないねじれやコントラスト）

• Irony means you caught bad situation even if you had a lot of expectations.
• Opherlia: He took me by the wrist and looked at me strengerly for a long time.Then,without a word out of the room,looking at me over his shoulder. Polonius: This seems to be the madness of love.Have you been unkind to him since I last saw you? Ophelia:I believed you. Hamlet: you were wrong to believe me. I didn't love you. Ophelia; then I was wrong.Hamlet:Give your life to god.You musn't mix with men or be the mother of their children. Men lie. Believe none of us.Give your life to God and work for the Church. 
• Reading their words,we understood that he did't trace of him that they know.

C. Reaction Point - denouement (ストーリーやプロットの結末）

• Denouement means epilogue of the story.
• Fortinbras: What happened?Oh,proud Death,why have you taken so many princes at the same to their graves?Messenger: I have come from England too late with our news.The king's request was answered -Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. But who will thank us now?Horatio:Not him.He never gave the orders for their death.But now you are here from your Polish wars,I will tell you a sad story of broken dreams, wicked murder and accidental death.This is how it ends.Fortinbras: Four officers will carry Hamlet's body away. this country has lost a great man and a wonderful future king.Soldier's music will play for him as he travels to the next world.Take away the bodies.This room looks like a field of war.Go,tell the soldiers to shoot their guns.
• Foritnbras enterd ,I think that he will invade to revenge for him and this novel denouement is bad end,But he buried Hamlet and others character politely, I was surprised st his action. And I think by enter Fortinbras ,This novel denouement is not bad end. That is truly give a helping hand to his enemy in distress.

D. My General Opinion
I'm sorry for Hamlet. But I'm sorry for many others character too. the ghost made Hamlet crazy person, however ghost was killed by brother. Ophelia was made crazy person by the word Hamlet said, and sang strange song,and drowned. Claudius was drunk wine that was laced and died by Hamlet.Gertrude was drunk wine that was laced poison and died by Claudius. I think that this novel tell us somebody have an unfortunate experience, In addition somebody have an similar unfortunate experience.Ophelia and Hamlet are case in point.