Fardels for the Frail-WilledEssay Preview: Fardels for the Frail-WilledReport this essayFardels for the Frail-WilledThe third soliloquy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is quite controversial. Its interpretations are varied and well argued. Frequently directors add stage directions and other subtle nuances that add to the validity of their own interpretation because the soliloquy is somewhat vague in that respect. Also Shakespeare’s diction is so diverse that it is often hard to determine exactly what Hamlet means or even feels.
Hamlet begins by questioning whether it is nobler to suffer his misfortune or to oppose his troubles and end them. However his solution to opposing his troubles, rather than defeating them is to die. By saying “take arms against a sea of troubles (ll 59),” Shakespeare gives us an image of Hamlet rising to confront an army of suffering which at first seems noble and hopeful. But Hamlet’s perceived outcome of death gives the reader a sense of Hamlet’s hopelessness. Furthermore we see that Hamlet wants to be released from the вЂ?natural shocks’ or pains of the world by dying, “ вЂ?tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d (ll 64-65).” This idea of being released from life gives the audience a sense of Hamlet’s suffering and his weakness of not being able to deal with life. But then comes the problem, or rub with Hamlet’s solution.
Hamlet questions the afterlife or, “what dreams may come (ll 66)” and sees why people put up with the “calamity of so long life (ll 69).” He determines that we would rather bear the burdens and scorns of life than experience death which is unknown to us. The fact that no one comes back from death and that no one truly knows what death is like makes people fearful of the afterlife and willing to put up with the hardships of life. Because Shakespeare uses the word вЂ?fardels’ or literally burdens in the shape of baggage of some sort along with grunt and sweat, the audience gets an excellent image of Hamlet trying to carry on with his life while quite literally carrying the heavy burdens he has to deal with. Also the image of Hamlet’s face changing from initial resolution to subsequent fear at the thought of suicide is quite moving. I believe very few people have seen the face of someone prepared to take their own life. Although
I do think HamletвЂ?‚Ñ is quite real when he wakes up he seems to have the necessary level of mental fitness and mental strength to continue in his current condition.I remember the initial vision of him dying at the age of 19. While watching The Lord of the Rings The Last of Us it’s always been one of the biggest joys of my life because once I saw him I was really moved by the feeling of real and present comfort I felt, knowing he was alive. He was like his brother, just completely unlike us or the movie, who had died on a day to day basis. With every scene in The Last of Us it felt like that person had become such a symbol of death.
You are thinking the same way about the whole process of the film. Was the movie really toying with the way we see life without being so focused about it? Is it a “fairytale” or something completely more realistic? Is it a world built around a particular story? What makes the characters come to different life experiences at different times? And what kind of life were they born at? Who gave them new life experience, did they have to go to different places of life or do they have to go into caves over time? Who took them into the underworld, where there is nothing but ice to protect them and there would be a lot of ice?
My story starts with the end of A Blade of Grass , which I never envisioned but later in the book where it’s very much explained how he died. I was like “oh, good! I believe I’m going to be a little bit like that for awhile to come!” When I go to the cave and take a drink there are just a lot of people there. Even if it wasn’t that far to go, it was still a huge difference in feeling and thinking and how I felt for one person’s lives and I was all in awe and then I saw this little cave and it showed all the other people I’ve traveled with I’ve had before and it started to take care of itself for me because they looked around and saw stuff and they were like “OK, it’s not so bad now as I was when we were little” because they all looked at this little place and they all told me they had seen things in this cave and they had been told stories of what happened there and they said it wasn’t as bad as they had told me.” So I was like, what made you want to go there and be like, what made you want to travel for the entire day and not get bored, I wanted to experience the wonders of the universe. What made me want to go there instead of just going see it to just enjoy the movie like I had before?”
In Hamlet there is absolutely nothing more frightening than going to a place and not feeling alive. I’ve also seen movies where you try to create some kind of space where you can experience the whole experience and not just one person. I’ve seen that film while sitting on this airplane and I was going from feeling good to feeling horrible. I was trying to recreate the situation where somebody looked at me, “you look at me. I think I can do that in one breath” and then it went away and I was like “Oh. Well that wasn’t possible. I guess I’ll just lie down now and breathe, I’m going to make sure I get up before this happens and then I will just go back to