the great thing about this monologue is that it covers such a wide range of emotions so if you are doing it then you can place emphasis on any one of them and it can be good. David tennant played into the suicidal aspects of Hamelt and KB obviously has played more into his anger and his frutration at the pain and injustice of this life.
Sign mine also while you're at it: "P.U." an awful delivery. Maybe Branagh should follow up the heinous "Frankenstein" with a remake of the "The Wolfman". Maybe somehow he can demonstrate a real understanding of drama while startng at the moon a la Lon Chaney Jr. Ken I want my 8 dollars back for Frankenstein, oh, and let me try Hamlet, I'll wear a period costume, I wont use a mirror, and I'll show you how its done. :P
@wildh0rse Why don't you upload a video of you reciting the soliloquy? No, really. I'd like you to. If you're going to diss a famous Shakespearian actor and say you can do better, then you might as well demonstrate how much better you are.
@gilmenachem You know, I might just do that. He's so fixated on the drama that the text (one of Shakespeares most priceless) falls by the wayside as he's orgasmically braething hard. My english teacher read it more convincingly. Hamlet's soliloquy is really him thinking out loud - he's not speaking/delivering to anyone except himself.
Am I signing my own death certificate by saying that I think Branagh's performance is sorely lacking, is too inappropriately cheery, is, in short, too emotionally "shallow" for this soliloquy? He isn't angst-ridden enough. He's simply...dramatic.
@lorrainewands Perhaps, yes. It is a bit more contemplative than I would have thought, but I guess that's the nature of Hamlet to some people. He thinks and muses but hides his emotions well. How else could he fake being crazy? (assuming you, like me, don't buy the "insanity" thing).
this is awesome. the movie i had to watch in class just had mel gibson making out with hhis mom while his real dad walks in on them. talk about awkward
This soliloquy is not about suicide. It's about the 'unkown' of death, and why people choose to suffer through life when death is peaceful sleep. Hamlet's contemplating what there is on the other side of death. Or at least that's what the teachers at my school taught me. They always stressed the point that Hamlet is NOT talking/thinking about killing himself through this entire play, especially not in this soliloquy.
@zambucca300 what did your teachers say when they came to the line "Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter" he is contemplating suicide and in this soliloquy he's describing his worry at being damned to hell if he does. I suppose its open to interpretation but to say suicide doesn't come up . . . especially when what your describing "the 'unkown' of death, and why people choose to suffer through life when death is peaceful sleep" sounds to me to be about suicide
@TrueBloodTimeLord He kinda does. I like him, but it's the wrong emotion. I get that the character would be angry after everything that's happened, but there's too much of it in this speech where he's contemplating suicide.
@Agent Sorry, but when Hamlet says "to be, or not to be" he is referring to whether or not he should commit suicide. He doesn't go ahead with this because God "forbids self slaughter". Hamlet is extremely depressed due to the traumatic death of his father and his mother marrying his uncle a month after the funeral.
@rosalielove11 Well another reason he doesn't kill himself would be nightmares. He fears the nightmares in the eternal sleep of death. "There's the rub" is an expression which pretty much means there's the answer or solution.
@rosalielove11 To think that Hamlet is here referring suicide is a general misconception. He is actually referring to wether or not he sould take action or not against "the sea of troubles" that surrounds him.
@rosalielove11 Well, that's good. Don't you want to know for certain? Hamlet did! He was the son of a dead king, a prince, a scholar, and also a lover.
If you were all of these things, what would you consider yourself to be?
while I do not particularly care for Shakespeare as it appears a congress of sickly gays, it does however contain elements of great profundity worthy of the cleanest of minds. to be or not to be does actually appear to be the question that is posed of us. who dares live forever without eyes for the alternative. to be in joy and never wonder why.
@jmar0015 You should feel lucky, by chance it may not be for you. However you should appreciate such wonders, such works of art, whether you find them interesting or not. Else you share this opinion without care, one may turn their eyes upon your work in the same light. o.-
After my friend and I saw 'The kings speech' we decided to memorize the entire 'to be or not to be' soliloquy. Finally, after 6 months of on and off competition, we know the entire thing off by heart.
In 20 years when I see her in the cosmetics section at Walmart I will go up to her and say 'To be or not to be, that is the question...'
It took you 6 months to memorize this soliloquy? Im in high school. In my English class were reading Hamlet, and my teacher has given us about two weeks to memorize this. Although, I have been procrastinating. I have three days left.
No one will ever agree on which is the best Hamlet interpertation. Why? Very simple. When people read the play they all have an image of how everything goes, sounds, and is acted. Once an actor does a scene, he is compared to the image in the mind of the viewer, which is never a fair comparison, and which will always lead to debate.
'Henceforth, all history hath shewn, that mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right himself by abolishing the forms by which he hath grown accustomed' ........ I wonder where they got it from ?!?
I am only thirteen but I can honestly say that I love Shakespear plays and I find it remarkable how he uses so much logic with his writing and I find just as remarkable how people can make it into such amazingly ramarkable movies!
Someone said that most of students are here for obligation. Well, I am Brazilian and I have some difficulty to understand Shakespeare's works, but I read for they give me pleasure. God has blessed Shakespeare, nevertheless He blessed us much more, because we can enjoy these paramount plays, exquisite masterpieces, evidences of Bard's ingenuity and great, wide and deep knowledge, mainly about the human soul.
@jenisson159 What a strange thought to believe that God blessed a work in which every protagonist die, in which a regicid takes (marries ?) the wife of his victim and where the poor Ophelia commits suicide !
@Namriel You read too fast and did not understand. God blessed Shakespeare, he was an incredible writer. These things happen in the real world, and God created the world. Shakespeare taught us about the frailty and transience of our life, it doesn't mean that we agree with each character's actions. If you don't like, why are you here?
@jenisson159 just so you know there's the theory that Shakespeare had never even written a thing and that he had stolen the works from a young man that had been under his wing, however this is only a theory as no one knows the true story of Shakespeare
@jenisson159 I can tell that you love shakespeare cause of the big vocab words you used and the way you used them... I sounded like a speech from one of his plays haha
"a person more enamoured with his own wordiness over craft or making a decent point. where have i heard that criticism before?
Beats me. I get the impression you bullshitted so much in the paraphrasing that the source would likely be yourself. Search around the wilderness of your mind and see if you can find something.
Now see, this has always made me think: 1:59. "From whose bourn no traveler returns". Except he knows that's not true. In fact, he knows exactly what awaits him after death. It's not like his Father came back from the grave to, oh wait... It's not so much a problem, as a question. What did Shakespeare mean here?
@tonystark106422 You raise the same question as one of my friends did a while ago in English class. My teacher (whom I respect to no end) reasoned that Hamlet is talking about the definitive consequences of Heaven and Hell. His father is in neither, he's in purgatory. He's waiting until Hamlet avenges his ''foul and most unnatural murder'', then presumably, he can pass on into a final resting place. As Old Hamlet was murdered with all his sins upon his head, he is forced to wait in purgatory.
@anttrap321 unlucky? I envy anyone who can study Hamlet in school. We read the Taming of the Shrew...it is great, but, Hamlet is on a different level.
@anttrap321 i think that's unfortunate, and yet i suppose that most people would never be exposed to literature unless they were academically obliged.
Am I a man to wish war and misery to all but me and mine, or shall I lay peace to all that sees and feels the sun filled sky and drink a little love more?
wow shakespeare is for dumb people who try to take something simple and make it seem sophisticated.. like picasso's childlike paintings. shakespeare is to adults like emo music is to teenagers.. like jesus is to adults like santa is to children
@wtfomfghax Dumb people with a better vocabulary than yours, I'm sure you agree. It's not so much making it 'seem' sophisticated, rather its finding the words to describe the ineffable.
One of the most exasperating things about Shakespeare's plays is that they're so static. Action and dialogue are never one with the Bard. His character's just stand there talking and talking and talking. None of them seem to have the slightest multi-tasking ability.
For a revenge tale, Kyd's Spanish Tragedy puts Hamlet to shame. It's perfectly fuses action and language; the main character is way more likeable, too, because he doesn't get so much exclusive one-on-one time with the audience.
I'd have to an attention span as short as yours if you honestly dismiss Hamlet because ti has little action. The action is saved until Act V because the first four establish everything the characters, esp Hamlet, are. You're right in that it's not a straightup revenge story, it's much, MUCH more.
Attention span has nothing to do with it. Many times I've read and watched this play in spite of its impotent plot and the obnoxious whines and rants of the main character. The language itself is great, and there are many beautiful soliloques, but the fact that it may work as a piece of poetry doesn't mean that it works as a tragedy or even a drama.
Act V pays off for the four dithering ones before only because Hamlet is finally put out of his - and my - misery.
I don't care if the rants are sometimes obnoxious. Kenneth Branagh does obnoxious characters very well and its hilarious. The soliloquies aren't just beautiful, they are also meaningful and insightful.
The plot is not impotent, the only thing that's impotent here is your taste.
One: you should learn to use the word impotent correctly. Two: what rubbish to say obnoxiousness is hilarious. Obnoxiousness is utterly unlikeable and unamusing. That's why, strangely enough, obnoxiousness is obnoxious. As for the soliloques, I'm not sure why you brought them up again. They have no say in at all in whether the play works dramatically or not.
I was hoping you'd at least provide a single reason how this nearly four hour play, featuring a privileged man constantly moping around and whining, succeeds as a tragedy. In a tragedy, the fall of the lead character is supposed to be poignant, either because they are victim to fate, or because they have a noble and likeable character that we feel deserves better. Since Hamlet was an ass who brought the Act V disaster about himself, where's the tragedy?
@rockhammer85 His mother is an incestruous whore, his idolized father has suddenly died, he finds an ethical way to approach retribution and justice (besides Horatio), he has lost Ophelia, his father was murdered by the very man that now sits on the throne- there are plenty of opportunities in which the audience gains pity for the character. There are, however, flaws to every tragic character just as Oedipus was doomed by his ignorance. But none of his flaws characterize him as an ass.
Those things provide a motive for revenge, but they don't justify his behaviour or his thinking. For example, there was no good reason for Hamlet to feign madness. All it did was stir up trouble, making every one else in the castle weary of him.
But getting on to Hamlet being a geniune ass: here are three reasons why I think he qualifies:
First, his arrogance. He thinks he's better than everyone else. Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia, Osric and the Priest are just a few of the many people to whom he makes nasty or superior remarks. His numerous digs at Ophelia are particularly immature and unfair.
Second is his hypocrisy. Hamlet's motivation is supposedly the distress and outrage he feels over his father's murder. He sees it as such a wrong that he appears even to resent the innocent for having ceased to grieve over it.
But here's the problem: Hamlet too kills a father - the father of the woman he loves - and shows no remorse for it. In fact, he hurls abuse upon the body of the dead man. For Hamlet, then, the callous murder of another's father is a lesser offence?
Third is his self-absorbtion and self-pity. The number, length and tone of his soliloques show that he is an introvert fixated on himself. Almost every speech he makes comes back to his own feelings, and his belief that Life treats him unfairly. Even when speaking of his father's death, he spends more time focusing on his own grief caused by it than the bitter injustice of the murder itself.
What an utterly crap response of half-assed semantics. If your quibbling was meant to discredit my comment, it failed miserably. You must have been delusional to think it had any merit. Never mind, though; to use a lovely generalization: all people who cluelessly use the term 'absolute' should be forgiven for sounding stupid when they're trying to be smart. So don't feel so bad. Rather, go walk it off; and fuck yourself too while you're at it.
@rockhammer85 semantics would be if i were to, say, point out that i wasn't playing semantics. see, i wasn't arguing that you were misusing words based on their common definitions (that's what semantics is). i was pointing out that you made a choice to make a sweeping, over-generalized statement based on the literal meaning of words whose meaning is not under dispute. that's not semantics; it's logic.
yet again, you're a fucking moron who can't type 10 words without fucking something up.
What a colossal amount of bullshit. You really aught to stick to your stale, grunting, angry one liners. At least only a small amount of you idiocy is revealed in them. At first I had you down as merely semantic, but now I see you're also pedantic, irrelevant, confused, and way out of your depth. I couldn't believe the irony when you even got semantic about Semantics. Lol. What a desperate, embarrassing geek. Wake me up when you have an actual argument, not a heap of quibbles.
His words honor my family.
Jarmen00747 22 hours ago
Am I the only one who sees how inappropriate 16 people 'liking' someone explaining Hamlet's suicidal inner turmoil is?
MissElectricCopper 1 day ago
the great thing about this monologue is that it covers such a wide range of emotions so if you are doing it then you can place emphasis on any one of them and it can be good. David tennant played into the suicidal aspects of Hamelt and KB obviously has played more into his anger and his frutration at the pain and injustice of this life.
guitar19971 6 days ago
This gives me chills... Kenneth Branagh is just so cool!
petescan321 1 week ago
MICROFORM
whotaughtyou 2 weeks ago
I kind of wish he would just stop starring in his own movies.
unecanneberge 1 month ago
Sign mine also while you're at it: "P.U." an awful delivery. Maybe Branagh should follow up the heinous "Frankenstein" with a remake of the "The Wolfman". Maybe somehow he can demonstrate a real understanding of drama while startng at the moon a la Lon Chaney Jr. Ken I want my 8 dollars back for Frankenstein, oh, and let me try Hamlet, I'll wear a period costume, I wont use a mirror, and I'll show you how its done. :P
wildh0rse 1 month ago
@wildh0rse Why don't you upload a video of you reciting the soliloquy? No, really. I'd like you to. If you're going to diss a famous Shakespearian actor and say you can do better, then you might as well demonstrate how much better you are.
gilmenachem 1 week ago
@gilmenachem You know, I might just do that. He's so fixated on the drama that the text (one of Shakespeares most priceless) falls by the wayside as he's orgasmically braething hard. My english teacher read it more convincingly. Hamlet's soliloquy is really him thinking out loud - he's not speaking/delivering to anyone except himself.
wildh0rse 1 week ago
Am I signing my own death certificate by saying that I think Branagh's performance is sorely lacking, is too inappropriately cheery, is, in short, too emotionally "shallow" for this soliloquy? He isn't angst-ridden enough. He's simply...dramatic.
lorrainewands 1 month ago
@lorrainewands completely agree. Is that the voice of someone contemplating suicide? I think not.
xlaydiirandomx 3 weeks ago
@lorrainewands Perhaps, yes. It is a bit more contemplative than I would have thought, but I guess that's the nature of Hamlet to some people. He thinks and muses but hides his emotions well. How else could he fake being crazy? (assuming you, like me, don't buy the "insanity" thing).
lionroar224 1 week ago
this is awesome. the movie i had to watch in class just had mel gibson making out with hhis mom while his real dad walks in on them. talk about awkward
destructopoo 1 month ago
Erection.
69LolTroll 1 month ago 3
The director of THOR. Also did a brilliant Henry V! Learn something you dolts!
thedrudgetick 1 month ago
Im watching this version in my english class.
tflover1221 1 month ago
Great movie.This Soliloquy was delivered fantastically.
1815ish 1 month ago
colinchambers lost his
tleksmon 2 months ago
tenzin leksmon is a homo
combatguy1234 2 months ago
86 people are doing their essay on hamlet
tleksmon 2 months ago
@tleksmon, 87 people, which are watching this this have choiced "to be".
metal87power 1 month ago
Lockhart?
StupidChildd 2 months ago 5
essential shit, suddenly
Molnii 2 months ago
I loved this version of hamlet. It was way better than Gibson's "modern" version. :)
katiecame 2 months ago
What is the name of the actor that is playing Hamlet cause i wanna find this version of Hamlet :D
KirouChan 2 months ago
@KirouChan Kenneth Branagh.
sansnguyen 2 months ago
Damn, thats a big sword.
SPKFTW 2 months ago
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go and listen to my interpretation: Hamlet ghost matej krevs
matejkrevs 2 months ago
This soliloquy is not about suicide. It's about the 'unkown' of death, and why people choose to suffer through life when death is peaceful sleep. Hamlet's contemplating what there is on the other side of death. Or at least that's what the teachers at my school taught me. They always stressed the point that Hamlet is NOT talking/thinking about killing himself through this entire play, especially not in this soliloquy.
zambucca300 2 months ago
@zambucca300 what did your teachers say when they came to the line "Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter" he is contemplating suicide and in this soliloquy he's describing his worry at being damned to hell if he does. I suppose its open to interpretation but to say suicide doesn't come up . . . especially when what your describing "the 'unkown' of death, and why people choose to suffer through life when death is peaceful sleep" sounds to me to be about suicide
NualasWorld 2 months ago
i think this guy kills the emotion of the speech.
TrueBloodTimeLord 3 months ago
@TrueBloodTimeLord He kinda does. I like him, but it's the wrong emotion. I get that the character would be angry after everything that's happened, but there's too much of it in this speech where he's contemplating suicide.
AnMaPa 3 weeks ago
im trying to learn this hole speech. its going to take me a long time!!
ebc1011 3 months ago
@ebc1011 he is contemplating suicide. whether its noble to suffer through your problems or is it more noble to take your life.
Hopeatoceansgate 3 months ago
Aye there's the rub!
hess6wi 3 months ago
@hess6wi LMAO... my fav part there mate :D
hotsbits 2 months ago
I LOVE HAMLET!!!
crazybitch994 3 months ago
@Agent Sorry, but when Hamlet says "to be, or not to be" he is referring to whether or not he should commit suicide. He doesn't go ahead with this because God "forbids self slaughter". Hamlet is extremely depressed due to the traumatic death of his father and his mother marrying his uncle a month after the funeral.
rosalielove11 3 months ago 16
@rosalielove11 He definitely feels betrayed. Hence his mistrust of literally everyone in the play--he tests them all, and everyone but Horatio fails.
lionroar224 1 week ago
@rosalielove11 Well another reason he doesn't kill himself would be nightmares. He fears the nightmares in the eternal sleep of death. "There's the rub" is an expression which pretty much means there's the answer or solution.
brago555 1 week ago
@rosalielove11 To think that Hamlet is here referring suicide is a general misconception. He is actually referring to wether or not he sould take action or not against "the sea of troubles" that surrounds him.
ZeJ0K3R95 3 days ago
HSC students?
funnyfacerful 3 months ago
does anyone know who directed this?
shahoney 3 months ago
@shahoney
Kenneth Branagh directed it. If your wondering who that is, just watch the video. He is Hamlet.
dudesonman4200 3 months ago
AWESOME
audiobooksfree 3 months ago
"To be, or not to be. That is the question."
My English literature teacher has said this SO many times... it is now permanently glued in my head and will never leave!
rosalielove11 4 months ago 3
@rosalielove11 Well, that's good. Don't you want to know for certain? Hamlet did! He was the son of a dead king, a prince, a scholar, and also a lover.
If you were all of these things, what would you consider yourself to be?
Agent1W 3 months ago
85 people here are named Mel Gibson.
box1467 4 months ago 47
while I do not particularly care for Shakespeare as it appears a congress of sickly gays, it does however contain elements of great profundity worthy of the cleanest of minds. to be or not to be does actually appear to be the question that is posed of us. who dares live forever without eyes for the alternative. to be in joy and never wonder why.
DanFrederiksen 4 months ago
He needs to play MacBeth on film... soon! I honestly cannot wait until he's old enough to play King Lear, too. That will be simply amazing.
jg2904 4 months ago
Why can't people Emo monologue like they used to? :)
cutiedudet 4 months ago 3
wet blanket Larry could act.
joebstarsurfer 5 months ago
There's a point in this play where hamlet says 'cunt'. He does it via a play on words, but he still says cunt.
DrunkenPoetic 5 months ago
why hamlet is sooooo boring in all three versions (Oliver, Zefferelli and Branagh's.) Watching this in college is noo fun!
jmar0015 5 months ago
@jmar0015 You should check out the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet. I actually love Hamlet, and that's my favorite version by far.
raver2be 5 months ago
@jmar0015 You should feel lucky, by chance it may not be for you. However you should appreciate such wonders, such works of art, whether you find them interesting or not. Else you share this opinion without care, one may turn their eyes upon your work in the same light. o.-
hasseo1 4 months ago
Ah, but to remember ANY line of the most quoted piece of written word! Trust me, and Jeopardy! says it is so!
spuppy78 5 months ago
lockhart!xD
marlo25alpha 5 months ago
i have to do this in english :P
MrTomelbourne 5 months ago
I ♥ Branagh!
tensingsonam 6 months ago
After my friend and I saw 'The kings speech' we decided to memorize the entire 'to be or not to be' soliloquy. Finally, after 6 months of on and off competition, we know the entire thing off by heart.
In 20 years when I see her in the cosmetics section at Walmart I will go up to her and say 'To be or not to be, that is the question...'
I cant wait ;)
phantomfangurl 6 months ago 5
@phantomfangurl
It took you 6 months to memorize this soliloquy? Im in high school. In my English class were reading Hamlet, and my teacher has given us about two weeks to memorize this. Although, I have been procrastinating. I have three days left.
dudesonman4200 3 months ago
I did this scene once and I might add I did it brilliantly.
reshsamech 6 months ago
I saw this AS we were going over Hamlet in English. And it's still a masterpiece.
SCRunnie 6 months ago
Why does Hamlet fear the possibilty of going to hell for suicide? Is that worse than murder of family(even though claud deserved it imo)
looneytunes999 6 months ago
No one will ever agree on which is the best Hamlet interpertation. Why? Very simple. When people read the play they all have an image of how everything goes, sounds, and is acted. Once an actor does a scene, he is compared to the image in the mind of the viewer, which is never a fair comparison, and which will always lead to debate.
bfoaliali 6 months ago
Rewind the play 5 minuets, because that fat piece of shit was talking, and I couldn't pay attention to what yall was doing....
So rewind the play 5 minuets.......
AND YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP
Randon1928 6 months ago
Paraphrasing the Declaration of Independence:
'Henceforth, all history hath shewn, that mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right himself by abolishing the forms by which he hath grown accustomed' ........ I wonder where they got it from ?!?
82airbornesoldier 6 months ago
I am only thirteen but I can honestly say that I love Shakespear plays and I find it remarkable how he uses so much logic with his writing and I find just as remarkable how people can make it into such amazingly ramarkable movies!
pupppybearz582 6 months ago
@pupppybearz582 that's alot of remarkable.
amerreda44 6 months ago
@amerreda44 I know
pupppybearz582 6 months ago
Why is it that when I talk to myself, I don't ever sound this good? Geesch.
vinishdo 7 months ago
Someone said that most of students are here for obligation. Well, I am Brazilian and I have some difficulty to understand Shakespeare's works, but I read for they give me pleasure. God has blessed Shakespeare, nevertheless He blessed us much more, because we can enjoy these paramount plays, exquisite masterpieces, evidences of Bard's ingenuity and great, wide and deep knowledge, mainly about the human soul.
jenisson159 7 months ago 76
@jenisson159 What a strange thought to believe that God blessed a work in which every protagonist die, in which a regicid takes (marries ?) the wife of his victim and where the poor Ophelia commits suicide !
Namriel 6 months ago
@Namriel You read too fast and did not understand. God blessed Shakespeare, he was an incredible writer. These things happen in the real world, and God created the world. Shakespeare taught us about the frailty and transience of our life, it doesn't mean that we agree with each character's actions. If you don't like, why are you here?
jenisson159 6 months ago
@jenisson159 just so you know there's the theory that Shakespeare had never even written a thing and that he had stolen the works from a young man that had been under his wing, however this is only a theory as no one knows the true story of Shakespeare
skateboardjumps 4 months ago
@jenisson159 I can tell that you love shakespeare cause of the big vocab words you used and the way you used them... I sounded like a speech from one of his plays haha
ST8Rodz 3 months ago
@jenisson159 I'm not sure about god, but there's a spark all right.
sqccccccccc 1 month ago
"a person more enamoured with his own wordiness over craft or making a decent point. where have i heard that criticism before?
Beats me. I get the impression you bullshitted so much in the paraphrasing that the source would likely be yourself. Search around the wilderness of your mind and see if you can find something.
Night, night and sweet dreams, Peewee.
rockhammer85 8 months ago
i think this is the best adaptation of the play into film
asherwilde 8 months ago 3
@anttrap321 actually we have to do it in Expressive arts. AKA. Drama
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Torpedo0698 8 months ago
i hve to memorize this spech for skool so far i only know up to for in that sleep of death what dreams may come true
NINJAOPTIX44 8 months ago
anyone know where I can watch Brannaghs film version free online theres no full english one on you tube
stumby12 8 months ago
This is the best part of the movie... the rest of it is yelling, throwing books and other stuff
MilesDaFoo616 8 months ago
Branagh only seems to half understand the meaning behind his own words when he plays Hamlet, not gonna lie.
dancingfreak94 8 months ago
@dancingfreak94 i feel the same way when reciting it. He does a good job nonetheless.
emmaura 8 months ago
who is this actor?? he's really good!
sarahbear1090 8 months ago
Now see, this has always made me think: 1:59. "From whose bourn no traveler returns". Except he knows that's not true. In fact, he knows exactly what awaits him after death. It's not like his Father came back from the grave to, oh wait... It's not so much a problem, as a question. What did Shakespeare mean here?
tonystark106422 8 months ago
@tonystark106422 You raise the same question as one of my friends did a while ago in English class. My teacher (whom I respect to no end) reasoned that Hamlet is talking about the definitive consequences of Heaven and Hell. His father is in neither, he's in purgatory. He's waiting until Hamlet avenges his ''foul and most unnatural murder'', then presumably, he can pass on into a final resting place. As Old Hamlet was murdered with all his sins upon his head, he is forced to wait in purgatory.
74dorset 8 months ago
@tonystark106422 I thought the same thing.
emmaura 8 months ago
So many high school students memorising this soliloquy.
AldoTheAphelion 8 months ago 3
...the name of action.
2xremember 8 months ago
more than 95% views of the video are unlucky students who have to do Hamlet in their English class.
anttrap321 8 months ago 128
@anttrap321 lol. I dont consider myself unlucky. I like this soliloquy
emmaura 8 months ago
@emmaura then you are the other 5 percent
anttrap321 8 months ago
@anttrap321 :]
emmaura 8 months ago
@anttrap321
Yep :p
Abhi01pyaar 8 months ago
@anttrap321 You're definitely wrong.
matthewilson 7 months ago
@anttrap321
>unlucky
Unevaluated 7 months ago
@anttrap321 unlucky? I envy anyone who can study Hamlet in school. We read the Taming of the Shrew...it is great, but, Hamlet is on a different level.
bfoaliali 6 months ago 3
@anttrap321 Your ignorance is now set in stone.
wojtek0000 6 months ago 3
@anttrap321 i wish i got to study hamlet...
nankerphelge718 6 months ago
@nankerphelge718 It's never too late to start. And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
godbluffvdgg 6 months ago
@anttrap321 fortunately im part of the 5% who just found kenneth brannagh amazing!
rckr125 6 months ago
@anttrap321 i think that's unfortunate, and yet i suppose that most people would never be exposed to literature unless they were academically obliged.
lorrainewands 6 months ago
@anttrap321 honored to be the 100th like
sirhonestharry 5 months ago
@anttrap321
unlucky.
you know what would be unlucky? studying twilight.
shut the fuck up and learn to appreciate real literature.
thelastgoodbai 4 months ago 4
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@thelastgoodbai "learn to appreciate real literature" cumming out of the mouth of a guy who says "shut the fuck up" ?
anttrap321 4 months ago
@anttrap321 unlucky? :O i love this play!
king2xm 4 months ago
@anttrap321 unlucky? shut the fuck up, this play is absolutely genius
Crusherdub 1 month ago 5
81 people shuffled off their mortal coils
psplayer89 8 months ago 3
Full of substance.
JordanMMurray 8 months ago
I watch this and it gives me suicidal thoughts
RagedREAP3Rx 9 months ago
@RagedREAP3Rx Don't worry me too. I'm doing an essay on it and it is most annoying. Why art thou so hard to write, stupid Shakespeare!
xRaven94 8 months ago
I hate this I have to memorize it by tomorrow... I hate my literature teacher!
jayhawkgirl11 9 months ago
@jayhawkgirl11 I had to do the same last year for my class.
music19910 9 months ago
I'm so fucked I have to memorize this in 3 days
AndrewLeonardi 9 months ago 3
@AndrewLeonardi Ouch. Break-a-Leg anyway. xx
dramaqueen7777777 9 months ago
@dramaqueen7777777 Thanks half memorized! two days left wooo!
AndrewLeonardi 9 months ago
@AndrewLeonardi I did it in an hour! You can dooo it :)
ScrantonStrangler7 8 months ago
he ruined my hamlet image T.T it might sound stupid but i imagined him way more handsom..why why..
propofill 9 months ago
Hands down best out of anyone that has done this.
ChickenFRY59 9 months ago
I don't like the way he interpreted this.
KitKatty83 9 months ago
I love this short monologue!
Am I a man to wish war and misery to all but me and mine, or shall I lay peace to all that sees and feels the sun filled sky and drink a little love more?
bernhardtsen74 9 months ago
@bernhardtsen74 I haven't read this before. You make this up?
emmaura 8 months ago
I was emotional at the time, so I just made it up in a dim mood!
bernhardtsen74 8 months ago
julian clarey
nonaplane 9 months ago
I like to perform this by myself in the middle of the night.
funstaurz 9 months ago 7
@funstaurz Yeah, and I would be like, "What light through yonder window breaks?"
Agent1W 9 months ago
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shakespeak is gay
JayKay309 9 months ago
@JayKay309 Its funny that you would watch this then p.s your just mad that his intelligent is more intense then yours.
xOwenn 9 months ago
@xOwenn I'm only watching this crap because I'm forced to in English class
JayKay309 9 months ago
@JayKay309 and yet you foolish Kid, Are commenting on Shakespear's Masterpiece.
So obviously You got a slight spot of intrest after all!
mar990 9 months ago
i need this for my essay
DeQuanAlexander 9 months ago
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Hey, I've seen this once.
Langsorigingaleia 9 months ago
I recite this to rid myself of suicidal thoughts
celebrei 10 months ago 54
@celebrei HAHA thats funny because its weird and your weird
wolverineNYY 9 months ago
@celebrei Try beer and gratuitous sex.
matrix49A 9 months ago
I'll be, thanks.
Raquethands 10 months ago
80 people would not take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them to die.
Friendo1231 10 months ago 2
god damn, we have to memorize this speech for english! it is very frustrating indeed. >_>
MadWorldAlise 10 months ago
@MadWorldAlise #1) it isn't that frustrating
#2) nobody cares about your english class
#3) shut up
drone81 10 months ago
Thanks for uploading, needed this for my test.
994508 10 months ago
@994508 something tells me s/he didn't upload it for your goddam test.
read the fucking play, you lazy piece of shit.
drone81 10 months ago
@drone81 hey now~ chill out. it's nice to read the part then hear a great actor speak it.
mapseudonym 9 months ago
@drone81 HAA i got a 6.8 (10 = best) Thanks for reacting :P
994508 9 months ago
@994508 so you got a d. i wouldn't brag about that.
drone81 9 months ago
@drone81 The average was a 2.5
994508 9 months ago
@994508 well i guess i should be happy that the special needs classes are studying shakespeare.
drone81 9 months ago
@drone81 indeed. lol
emmaura 8 months ago
press 5 repeatedly
Tha7RandomDude 10 months ago
I absolutely loved this interpretation of Hamlet. Good portrayal of chairoschuro, beats Mel Gibson's version ANYDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JayOkan 10 months ago
wow shakespeare is for dumb people who try to take something simple and make it seem sophisticated.. like picasso's childlike paintings. shakespeare is to adults like emo music is to teenagers.. like jesus is to adults like santa is to children
wtfomfghax 10 months ago
@wtfomfghax
That's especially true in the case of Hamlet. The play is a favorite with emollectuals.
rockhammer85 10 months ago
@wtfomfghax Dumb people with a better vocabulary than yours, I'm sure you agree. It's not so much making it 'seem' sophisticated, rather its finding the words to describe the ineffable.
emmaura 8 months ago
"Ay there's the rub" xD
Love Branagh. He's absolutely amazing.
Slegger0404 10 months ago
pretty please, monologue from Closet Scene in my channel. advice/criticisms/thoughts pretty please! monologue from closet scene
gettingtoknowme 10 months ago
One of the most exasperating things about Shakespeare's plays is that they're so static. Action and dialogue are never one with the Bard. His character's just stand there talking and talking and talking. None of them seem to have the slightest multi-tasking ability.
For a revenge tale, Kyd's Spanish Tragedy puts Hamlet to shame. It's perfectly fuses action and language; the main character is way more likeable, too, because he doesn't get so much exclusive one-on-one time with the audience.
rockhammer85 10 months ago
@rockhammer85
I'd have to an attention span as short as yours if you honestly dismiss Hamlet because ti has little action. The action is saved until Act V because the first four establish everything the characters, esp Hamlet, are. You're right in that it's not a straightup revenge story, it's much, MUCH more.
venomousspiderwookie 10 months ago
@venomousspiderwookie
Attention span has nothing to do with it. Many times I've read and watched this play in spite of its impotent plot and the obnoxious whines and rants of the main character. The language itself is great, and there are many beautiful soliloques, but the fact that it may work as a piece of poetry doesn't mean that it works as a tragedy or even a drama.
Act V pays off for the four dithering ones before only because Hamlet is finally put out of his - and my - misery.
rockhammer85 10 months ago
@rockhammer85
I don't care if the rants are sometimes obnoxious. Kenneth Branagh does obnoxious characters very well and its hilarious. The soliloquies aren't just beautiful, they are also meaningful and insightful.
The plot is not impotent, the only thing that's impotent here is your taste.
Muffinfordinner 10 months ago
@Muffinfordinner
One: you should learn to use the word impotent correctly. Two: what rubbish to say obnoxiousness is hilarious. Obnoxiousness is utterly unlikeable and unamusing. That's why, strangely enough, obnoxiousness is obnoxious. As for the soliloques, I'm not sure why you brought them up again. They have no say in at all in whether the play works dramatically or not.
rockhammer85 10 months ago
I was hoping you'd at least provide a single reason how this nearly four hour play, featuring a privileged man constantly moping around and whining, succeeds as a tragedy. In a tragedy, the fall of the lead character is supposed to be poignant, either because they are victim to fate, or because they have a noble and likeable character that we feel deserves better. Since Hamlet was an ass who brought the Act V disaster about himself, where's the tragedy?
rockhammer85 10 months ago
@rockhammer85 His mother is an incestruous whore, his idolized father has suddenly died, he finds an ethical way to approach retribution and justice (besides Horatio), he has lost Ophelia, his father was murdered by the very man that now sits on the throne- there are plenty of opportunities in which the audience gains pity for the character. There are, however, flaws to every tragic character just as Oedipus was doomed by his ignorance. But none of his flaws characterize him as an ass.
violmaster94 10 months ago
@violmaster94
Those things provide a motive for revenge, but they don't justify his behaviour or his thinking. For example, there was no good reason for Hamlet to feign madness. All it did was stir up trouble, making every one else in the castle weary of him.
But getting on to Hamlet being a geniune ass: here are three reasons why I think he qualifies:
rockhammer85 10 months ago
@rockhammer85
First, his arrogance. He thinks he's better than everyone else. Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia, Osric and the Priest are just a few of the many people to whom he makes nasty or superior remarks. His numerous digs at Ophelia are particularly immature and unfair.
rockhammer85 10 months ago
@rockhammer85
Second is his hypocrisy. Hamlet's motivation is supposedly the distress and outrage he feels over his father's murder. He sees it as such a wrong that he appears even to resent the innocent for having ceased to grieve over it.
But here's the problem: Hamlet too kills a father - the father of the woman he loves - and shows no remorse for it. In fact, he hurls abuse upon the body of the dead man. For Hamlet, then, the callous murder of another's father is a lesser offence?
rockhammer85 10 months ago
@rockhammer85
Third is his self-absorbtion and self-pity. The number, length and tone of his soliloques show that he is an introvert fixated on himself. Almost every speech he makes comes back to his own feelings, and his belief that Life treats him unfairly. Even when speaking of his father's death, he spends more time focusing on his own grief caused by it than the bitter injustice of the murder itself.
rockhammer85 10 months ago
@rockhammer85 good point
emmaura 8 months ago
@rockhammer85 you have obviously never seen michael keaton play dogberry.
drone81 8 months ago
@drone81
I have. But one actor/character is hardly the exception that kills the rule.
rockhammer85 8 months ago
@rockhammer85 when that rule is absolute (i.e., "never," "none"), yeah it kind of does.
now stop generalizing and shut your dumbfuck mouth hole.
drone81 8 months ago
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rockhammer85 8 months ago
@drone81
What an utterly crap response of half-assed semantics. If your quibbling was meant to discredit my comment, it failed miserably. You must have been delusional to think it had any merit. Never mind, though; to use a lovely generalization: all people who cluelessly use the term 'absolute' should be forgiven for sounding stupid when they're trying to be smart. So don't feel so bad. Rather, go walk it off; and fuck yourself too while you're at it.
Keaton the proof against? Lol.
rockhammer85 8 months ago
@rockhammer85 semantics would be if i were to, say, point out that i wasn't playing semantics. see, i wasn't arguing that you were misusing words based on their common definitions (that's what semantics is). i was pointing out that you made a choice to make a sweeping, over-generalized statement based on the literal meaning of words whose meaning is not under dispute. that's not semantics; it's logic.
yet again, you're a fucking moron who can't type 10 words without fucking something up.
drone81 8 months ago
@drone81
What a colossal amount of bullshit. You really aught to stick to your stale, grunting, angry one liners. At least only a small amount of you idiocy is revealed in them. At first I had you down as merely semantic, but now I see you're also pedantic, irrelevant, confused, and way out of your depth. I couldn't believe the irony when you even got semantic about Semantics. Lol. What a desperate, embarrassing geek. Wake me up when you have an actual argument, not a heap of quibbles.
rockhammer85 8 months ago