Hello
everyone! As you may have remembered from my last post, I had mentioned that
Hamlet was called to his mother’s chambers shortly after the play. After
choosing to temporarily spare Claudius, Hamlet answered his mother’s call and
head over to her chambers, promising to “speak daggers to her, but use
none”. Turns out, he stayed true to his
word, but that doesn’t mean he left her unharmed. According to our reporters,
Hamlet was restraining his mother to her bed, shoving a picture of her head
husband in her face! She begged for him to stop, when suddenly Hamlet heard a
movement behind the curtains. It was Polonius, eavesdropping for information to
give to Claudius. Without ANY hesitation, Hamlet jumped towards the curtain and
started thrusting his sword at the unseen Polonius, killing him. Wait, so
Hamlet will put weeks of thought into the perfect way to kill Claudius, but if
he senses movement behind a curtain he jumps in swinging his sword like a
maniac?! But that’s not all, shortly
after Polonius dropped dead the ghost of King Hamlet appeared once again, but
Gertrude couldn’t see it! She instantly was convinced that Hamlet is mad as he
conversed with the ghost, as he tried to get her see the apparition of her dead
husband. The event concluded with Hamlet telling his mother to tell no one what
she has seen, and he began to drag Polonius’ lifeless body from the room.
Here's a reporter's sketch of the event:
It truly bewilders me that Hamlet would use such aggression towards
his own mother, yet he hasn’t even confronted Claudius yet! At this point, we know
that Claudius is the murderer of his father, and the fact that Claudius stormed
out of the theatre and faked prayer in front of Hamlet strongly support that.
So why doesn’t Hamlet just cut Claudius’ head clean off and get on with his
life? Or an even better question is: Why does Hamlet choose to unleash his
anger on Polonius and his own mother? In Hamlet’s defense; if my father had
been murdered by his brother, and his ghost was appearing to me telling me to
commit a murder as revenge, I’d probably go a little crazy too! His mental
instability has become so extreme that he has become completely unpredictable!
Claudius is definitely aware of this, and he has arranged for Hamlet to sail to
England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. What awaits him there is yet to be
seen, but knowing Claudius’ past actions, it can’t be good
- The Hamlet Herald
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