Hamlet Summative

So for my Hamlet topic I chose Overcoming grief on this theme is seen

a lot throughout this play and it's also

um

Regarding lots of people. So I used to songs,

two movies and a TV show.

First song is pulled me under.

Um This one isn't actually inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet and

it kind of just explores Hamlet conflicting between the revenge.

He sings on his uncle for killing his father,

but also the overwhelming grief he has which is causing him to contemplate suicide.

So the Hamlet connection in this.

So I have a quote from Hamlet,

it says to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.

Which is basically discussing how he is wondering

whether it's worth to continue to put up with

what life is throwing at him or if he's better off spending things once and for all.

And then the quote from the song I decided to pop in

because they are directly related as the song is based off Hamlet.

So I said if not today nor yet tomorrow then some other day.

So this is referring to when Hamlet is contemplating life,

but as well as when he's being poisoned because he knows he

could die at any time but justifies his fight as he did

it all for the love of his father.

I related this back to overcoming grief so brief can

be felt in five stages two of which are anger depression

in which Hamlet can be openly seen expressing although he contemplates his life,

that stage passes and when the anger sets in he does relate

it back to all the time in the name of his father.

So he's doing everything for his dad. Although he is feeling

the grief and he is depressed and he's angry about what happened,

he's living his life for his father.

The next topic I chose is another song I'll Be Missing You.

Um This song is actually in Remembrance to a

murder of one of the artists close friends.

So

this song is created as a piece. It's almost like closure for Pdt as he feels.

This is a way to talk to his late friend

and express his emotions and grief for his death.

But throughout song.

So um he actually thinks he feels as though he's

talking to his friend when he can express these emotions.

So how how this relates to Hamlet.

Hamlet expresses his emotion to his late father by speaking to the ghost of him.

And although many people may be gone, you can always express feelings in many ways.

And coping with these kinds of skills is important to help get out of the past.

So a quote from Hamlet Revenge is foul and most unnatural murder.

So this is kind of how both perspectives are grieving a murder.

But there is a relation between the grief

they are experiencing as the situation is similar.

So using your voice to express grief is very important to prevent

the depression phase as if you bottle all these feelings up,

you're going to fall into that depression phase.

So the next topic is a movie P. S. I love you.

The movie is based around a widow who finds 10 letters. Her late husband left for her.

And so the letters are to support holly not only to overcome

her grief but also to rediscover herself and to continue life alone.

So she finds the first letter when she is on her 30th birthday and it's basically

just a way of her husband to let her know it's okay to move on.

So this relates because when Ophelia kills herself him seems

to be unaware until he's actually watching her be put into

the ground and he confesses his love for her stating he

would do more than for her than her own brother.

So the quote I grabbed was I loved ophelia 40,000 brothers

could not with all their quantity of love make up.

My sum

that would though

what would thou do for her.

And so this is from Act five scene 1.

Um So basically he's mourning the death of someone.

And when you're mourning the death of someone you loved who

is not family but seen as more of a partner,

it can be extremely difficult for someone to move on and find closure.

So although love does not dissipate and you're always going to love them for

the rest of your life, Love must continue.

And so can life. So it's kind of

inspired by

those you lost but you have to live life for yourself. And in both of these

um Hamlet and P. S. I love you I find that

they're living life for themselves

but they are inspired by the people they lost.

The next is we bought a zoo.

So this movie is basically after the father he loses his wife,

he decides to move his family to a property continues.

Ooh

um Both Children are overcoming grief although

his daughter is quite excited about moving.

His son is really angry with his father and he's kind

of closed off and uses his art more to speak.

Um So

they used the restoration of the zoo

to kind of restore their family unit because once you lose someone in

your family it can be really hard to have that family unit.

So Hamlet loses his father and his mom is not keen on grieving

which is causing silent anger between them.

Just like Dylan and his father in the movie.

So a quote I pulled was a bloody deed,

almost as bad good mother as killing a king and marry with his brother.

This is from Act three Scene 4.

So anger is a process of grief.

But to overcome this you must communicate your anger.

So Dylan and the the young boy in the movie is able to confide in his father

and this builds a stronger bond through this grief

journey together because they're not in it alone.

And I think Hamlet kind of just confides in his friend Horatio

as he is there in times when Hamlet is facing grief, head on to support him,

Like when he was trying to reach out to his father,

the last I Chose is a tv show called Afterlife.

Um the show is based off perspective of a husband grieving

the loss of his wife who had no Children together,

but they did have a dog.

Um although we see the main character Tony

struggled immensely with depression and suicidal thoughts.

He also has a lot of anger and is not afraid to talk back to anyone else

as he believes he would kill himself soon enough.

So he really took on the depression phase and the anchor of gray ving.

So the relations, so when Hamlet lost his father,

he was contemplating killing himself as he thought there was

no more life could throw at him that he could handle

in the same way Tony feels as though the only reason

he is even alive is to take care of his dog,

he thinks he is only there to feed the dog against such,

But soon he comes to realize after losing his father

that there's more you can overcome

as you continue through life

and hard times create stepping stones to gain new

strength and he was able to grieve his father's death

properly privately and also openly in the same sense when

he wasn't able to do that for his wife,

um Hanley also learns he can overcome his grief

and although he is not the best of this,

he does show signs of improvement as when affiliate dies.

Although he is quite quite upset,

I found that he was able to overcome this more than um, he was with his father's death

and I quote, I pulled,

I wish my dirty flesh would melt away into a vapor

or that God had not made a law against suicide.

Oh God God,

how tired stale and pointing it this life is to me

And that's from Act one, scene 2.

So overall,

I believe the theme of overcoming grief is largely intertwined into

today's media as well as old literature and I think it's

very important to show the representation of the different stages of

grief as we can see in these forms of media.

Although Hamlet is just one piece of literature,

I find that it is really good at pulling out different

themes and overcoming grief was super highlighted for me while watching

this and I believe it's extremely important to talk through grief

and to know what stage of grief you are in.

So you can pull yourself out of it.

Thank you for listening

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