Hamlet (1996) IMDB rating: 7.70 Plot: Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother’s wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot—the most complicated and most interesting in all literature—he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the “prime minister,” love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother’s.

Actors: Abbasi Riz,Attenborough Richard,Blair David,Blessed Brian,Branagh Kenneth,Briers Richard,Bryant Michael,Bygott Peter,Crystal Billy,Daish Charles,Depardieu Gerard,Dinsdale Reece,Dodd Ken,Drama,Crime,Romance,Thriller,

If You Were In "Hamlets" Shoes?
Would someone be able to help me out on a bit on opinions of "being in the shoes" of Hamlet.

If you were Hamlet, how would you feel if you saw your father’s ghost?

Must contain at least 5 references to the scenes in Act I. Some may be direct quotes

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I don’t like giving the answer to things like this but I can give you some starting answers. Remember, Hamlet is distraught over his father’s murder! He desperately wants to know who did it and why, also he is grief stricken over his father’s death. What would you think if you wanted to know who killed your father, and why? What would you say to a murdered father’s ghost? Hope this helps to get the gears going!
Anna R | Feb 05, 2010

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Hamlet is conflicted, a common feeling for him.

You see, he is melancholy that his father is dead, and seeing the ghost is like opening a wound for him.

Hamlet rarely trusts his instincts, though, and so he does not believe his eyes. Is this really his dead father, or is it a devil made to look like his dead father? Or is he just seeing things?

If he is just seeing things, then nothing the ghost says has any truth or merit. If it is his father’s ghost, then he has an obligation to heed the warnings or honor the requests of the deceased king. If it is a devil, however, then this may be a trap to damn him.

Hamlet just cannot be sure, and cannot settle on what to think. He second-guesses everything, his senses included. This will eventually be his downfall.
misterfizzy | Feb 05, 2010