HAMLET THE PLATFORM DIALOGUE THE PLATFORM IS INSERT

HAMLET THE PLATFORM

DIALOGUE • THE PLATFORM IS INSERT IN ACT I, SCENE IV, • THE MAIN CHARACTER IS HAMLET, IN THE EXTRA HE DIALOGUES WITH HORATIO AND MARCELLUS

HAMLET: Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do? Ghost beckons HAMLET

TRADUZIONE: ANGELI E MINISTRI DELLA GRAZIA CI DIFENDONO! SII SPIRITO DI SALUTE O FOLLETTO MALEDETTO, PORTA CON TE ARIE DAL CIELO O SCOPPI D'INFERNO, SII INTENTO MALVAGIO O CARITATEVOLE, TU VIENI IN UNA FORMA COSÌ DISCUTIBILE CHE TI PARLERÒ: TI CHIAMERÒ AMLETO , RE, PADRE, DANESE REALE: O, RISPONDIMI! NON LASCIARMI SCOPPIARE NELL'IGNORANZA; MA DI 'PERCHÉ LE TUE OSSA CANONIZZATE, ASCOLTATE NELLA MORTE, HANNO SCOPPIATO I LORO RITI; PERCHÉ IL SEPOLCRO, DOVE TI VEDEMMO IN SILENZIO, HA SPINTO LE SUE PODEROSE E MASCELLE DI MARMO, A GETTARTI DI NUOVO SU. CHE COSA PUÒ SIGNIFICARE, CHE TU, MORTO CORSO, DI NUOVO IN PIENO ACCIAIO RIVISITA COSÌ GLI SCORCI DELLA LUNA, RENDERE NOTTE ORRIBILE; E NOI SCIOCCHI DELLA NATURA COSÌ ORRIBILMENTE DA SCUOTERE LA NOSTRA DISPOSIZIONE CON PENSIERI AL DI LÀ DELLA PORTATA DELLE NOSTRE ANIME? DIMMI, PERCHÉ È QUESTO? PERCHÉ? COSA DOVREMMO FARE?

THEMES • THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CERTAINTY • THE MYSTERY OF DEATH • THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HELL AND HEAVEN • THE COMPLEXITY OF ACTION • THERE ARE FANTASTIC INSERTIONS

SUMMARY: ACT I, SCENE IV • ONE NIGHT HAMLET GUARDS THE CASTLE WITH HORATIO AND MARCELLO, WAITING FOR THE GHOST TO APPEAR. AFTER MIDNIGHT THEY HEAR NOISES AND HAMLET EXPLAINS THAT THE NEW KING, HIS UNCLE, HAS FUN. • HAMLET CRITICIZES THE KING'S ATTITUDES, WHICH HE BELIEVES WILL BRING DENMARK TO FAILURE. • THEN THE GHOST APPEARS AND HAMLET CALLS HIM. THE GHOST CALLS HAMLET TO FOLLOW HIM IN THE NIGHT. HIS COMPANIONS TRY TO CONVINCE HAMLET TO DON’T FOLLOW THE APPARITION, BECAUSE THE GHOST COULD TAKE HIM TO EVIL.

SUMMARY: ACT I, SCENE IV • HAMLET ISN’T SURE THAT THE APPARITION OF HIS FATHER IS REALLY THE SPIRIT OF THE KING OR AN EVIL DEMON, BUT NOW HE HAS LOST HOPE IN LIFE AND THEREFORE THE GHOST CAN NOT DO ANYTHING TO DAMAGE HIS SOUL. • HAMLET DISAPPEARS IN THE DARKNESS. HORATIO AND MARCELLO ARE WORRIED ABOUT HAMLET SO THEY FOLLOW HIM.

ANALYSIS HAMLET IS PART OF A LITERARY TRADITION CALLED REVENGE, IN WHICH A MAN MUST TAKE REVENGE ON THOSE WHO IN SOME WAY HAVE OFFENDED HIM. YET HAMLET IS OFTEN CONSIDERED AN EXAMPLE OF THE CLASSIC "UNDECIDED" PERSON, WHO THINKS A LOT AND ACTS TOO LITTLE. THE PROTAGONIST IS MORE COMPLICATED AND INTERESTING BECAUSE WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT HAMLET DOES NOT ACT WHILE MANY OTHER PEOPLE ACT, IT IS NOT AS IF THE ACTIONS OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS IN THE GAME ARE RESOLVED.

ANALYSIS • IN THE EXTRACT THERE ARE MANY RETORICAL QUESTIONS THAT HAVEN’T ANSWER. AS A CONSEQUENCE ALL QUESTIONS SOUND LIKE A CRY, THEY CREATED A NOSTALGIC TONE. • THE AUTHOR FOCUSES READER’S ATTENCTION ON THE DARK ATMOSPHERE, THAT IS SUITABLE WITH THE GHOSTLY THEME OF EXTRACT.