Hamlet

Author: Shakespeare
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Publication Date: 2004-01-01
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Hamlet is one of us. On the streets, we may pass each other every day, and the thoughts tormenting him are also tormenting us. The choices he faces are the ones we face every day. Survival or death is a philosophical question, as well as every major and minor matter in life. Or not. You can only choose one. Hamlet has been gone from us for too long. People have hung him in the air, as if he were born noble, making him like "a fellow in a full suit of motley, a mad actor in a play, who, to the wonder of the vulgar herd, claps his hands and cries out." Now, we want to bring him back to us, as our brother and as ourselves. Today, when we face Hamlet, we are not facing a prince avenging justice, nor are we facing a hero of humanism. We are facing ourselves. The ability to face oneself is the most positive, courageous, and heroic posture that modern people can have. Besides that, we have nothing else.
Hamlet is fortunate. He can still represent justice and put it into action, and he can still die heroically as a person. But in modern drama, Trelievre can only shoot himself like killing a seagull, Berenger cannot transform into an rhinoceros, only despair and helplessness remain; while Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot.