Hamlet...He kind of reminds me of someone...

I really do wish I could take Hamlet seriously but unfortunately, I am having a touch of trouble with it. Romeo and Juliet is one of my favorite plays so it's not that Shakespeare makes me giggle but there is something there. I think it's the ghost. I don't really like scary movies so I don't usually watch them unless it has something as completely ridiculous as a ghost or a poltergeist. When you start throwing ghosts into the picture (and having people constantly trying to chat them up) I am going to have a bit of trouble being completely serious about it. I have already come up with some ideas about why that ghost is not really a ghost... Of course :) There are two reasons that Shakespeare has put in this ghost: As a symbol or as a "not" ghost ghost. I'm thinking it's a symbol because everyone can see it. Ghosts: gray, Casper, creepy, Halloween, dusty, usually have reasons for still being on Earth... I believe that the ghost combines inner torture of his brother, ex-wife and Hamlet (you have to make sure that everyone is clear on the fact that his brother marrying his wife is not right) but I also believe he represents things that do not exist in reality, existing in Shakespeare's plays and in the characters lives. Just like on Secret Life of the American Teenager, their is WAY too much drama that you cannot stop watching, Shakespeare does the same thing by making fiction into fact. I also like how a whole love saga is about to begin begin Hamlet and Ophelia. It is no mystery why people enjoy Shakespeare and why he is SO infamous. He created the perfect formula for great plays, novels, movies and anything else theat involves a story. First you start out with violence. This captures the audiences attention extremely quickly, add some crazy reasoning, some very interesting and slightly confusing characters followed by a trifle between families, something that is not real (love or ghosts) and put in at least a small section of a love story and you have encompassed every person, genre and idea that anyone could ever find interesting. Hamlet reminds me of someone who I know but someone whose name I cannot speak of in this blog :) I believe that in life, we have characterization about people and those correspond to people in novels because although we are all different, we are all the same. Like novels, we all stem from each other both physically and mentally. In this way, the traits we exhibit in real life correspond to the characters in the novels we read and now I am starting to see everyone I know as a Daisy Buchanan or a Jack Burden... It's the painful truth of being an AP lit student. Everything is about everything... in life and in literature. I believe that everyone has a small amount of Hamlet in them. I don't think anyone is a direct Hamlet because that is too much sarcasm and baggage for any one person to carry around but it does occur in everyone. All people experience struggle and strife so we are either enticed because we have not experienced it yet or we are enticed because we have.