As I typed last week, the people who are taking these posts seriously demonstrate a deep understanding of the play and its themes. However, the more of these would do, the more I notice some students dropping off ... either by not posting entries or by not writing very much. Also, many students in this class ignored my directions and posted after the deadline.
Don't fall into any of these traps. Remember that you receive points for both timeliness and seriousness and ... the essay is coming. Alejandra, Daniel, and Lou were really on this week. When it comes time to study, check out their entries.
-Mr. Paul
You enjoy the scene because you identify yourself with the first grave-digger. Hopefully you're not comparing US to the second grave-digger, but I can vividly imagine you playing the first ones role. It's not hard to see you posing the exact same question regarding Ophelia's suicide, but towards our classroom instead.
ReplyDelete-Jerry Leon Cruz
Well, it depends on what you would consider "justice". Justice is when the wrong doers have been punished for their crimes and the innocent are rewarded for their loss. But the way I see it, the judge (Hamlet), the jury (every other character except Horation) and the defendant (the King) have all been massacred in a vicious cycle of delivering justice and eliminating the problematic! It's like a love-triangle of murder: the defendant kills the jury, the jury kills the judge, and the judge kills the defendant!
ReplyDeleteNow for the short n'sweet version of my statement:
Sure, justice has been "served", but who's left to acknowledge it?. Horatio may live, but he is only but a bystander of the royal family's demise. Anyone else that was involved in this cycle cannot make a claim that he "won", because they're all DEAD!
-Jerry Leon Cruz