Blog Post #14: Hamlet Act II

"Louis: We made it! I can't believe we made it!
Bill: Son, we just crossed the street.
[ Bill pauses to light a cigarette. ]
Let's not throw a party 'til we're outta the city."

 This is Horatio her to talk about these things called video games.Recently Hamlet has had unexpected visit from his other friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Hamlet was overjoyed some familiar faces at his home."Hamlet: My excellent good friends! How dost thou Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do you both? Rosencrantz: As indifferent as children of the earth. Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not overhappy; on Fortune's cap we are not the very button."(2.2.lines 215-219). The four of us friends together reminds of this story that happened when I retired for bed after the whole ghost event, someone from the future came to me and showed me so many things that could signify brotherhood and friendship, but the one that stood out the most was this thing called Left 4 Dead. True, the death part was a bit much, but the glowing box made this story so exciting! Anyways this game of 'infected' feels like these are people that you cannot trust and this stone city keeps them from escaping almost like how Hamlet describes Denmark to our other friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,“...for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me, it is a prison.” (2.2. lines 268-270). It was as if this was like a prison, only you make the wrong move you die from an infect... OH MY GOD that thing looks like a giant covered in boils and keeps running while those flash sticks keep hitting it ad it doesn't slow down. Back to the subject, Hamlet begins behaving in unusual ways, which causes concern for his mother and uncle. In an effort to find out what was troubling Hamlet, King Claudius and Queen Gertrude sends for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two of Hamlet's 'closest' friends 'with haste' to 'use' them for 'the supply and profit of (their) hope' (2.2. lines 20-24). as I played each of these campaigns as they called it, the team always worked together and took care of themselves and any others that needed help. The friendship of each character seems to show how much they trust each other and loyalty to each other to get through the dangers of the world, much like me and Hamlet. We can only trust each other and stay truthful to what is right. As a friend I will make his plans fall through, but without those flash sticks and crazy people in a bright stone village, that place just depresses me almost as much as Hamlet as he views the world as he no longer has any joy,  and thinks that there is no good in the earth as repeats to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as he , “...lost all (his)  mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and, indeed, it goes so heavily with (his) disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to (him) a sterile promontory…” (2.2.318-322) as other people would surely betray each other to live in the end of all life than help each other to survive it. It was quite an amount to take in that Hamlet's loyalty to his father to avenge the very soul and right the wrong that was inflicted yet questions his belief as he he mentioned to me “The spirit that I have seen/ May be a devil…/I’ll have grounds/More relative than this”(2.2.526-532), he reveals part of the reason for his hesitancy, and resolves to have firmer evidence of his uncle’s guilt before he inflicts punishment. I believe in each word of Hamlet to have the king relive his sin, but I'm uncertain what the outcome of our so called king will be, and what will happen to us.