Character Post

When I think about characters I like to think back on a story known as Hamlet. hamlet was quite a character, most people would refer to him as deep but i beg to differ. Hamlet seemed to me Flat. He was quite amusing but he was not deep intellectual or thought provoking. He simple received information and acted upon it. This sounds quite boring yes, but it is not. You see Hamlet is unique to me because he is flat but not boring. Many story,s with flat characters are very boring but hamlet keeps the action alive. He even makes this out to be funny at some points. I personally make flat characters when writing but I find it challenging and fun to keep them from turning sour. In the play Hamlet he is constantly keeping the audience entertained all the way even to his death. Yes as he is dying he makes it almost comical.

The character Hamlet looks like a young man in this mid to late twenties. he may have a bowl cut and a thin beard. He may where leggings and any other clothing styled during that era. Being of noble blood his skin would be pale not having a bit of sun on his skin. So far this image of our character looks a bit like a modern nerd, but thats alright, Hamlet is a funny guy. Our character would smell like he never broke a sweat in his life. Our character would also posses a European accent. This of course would be because he lives in Europe, don't worry Hamlet we'll forgive you. Our character during this time is training to be king someday by going to school constantly, learning how to govern a group of people, etc... During the course of the story he is trying to find out the reason for his fathers death. He finally learns that his father was killed by his uncle who is now king and happily married to his uncle. During the course of the play he is trying to expose his uncle then to revenge his father's death by killing his uncle. This is why I say that he is not very deep. Everything is laying wide out in the open. There is no thought provoking work in his works or actions. Shakespeare should have taken Prof Corrigans class.

Hamlet does have a friend who throughout the play stays rather secondary, but towards the end he makes his approach and ends the play with some deep well rounded words. It really causes me to think. "What is it ye would see? If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search." Wow.

In the play know as Hamlet there are many other characters, many of with are flat just as Hamlet, but there are a few that are quite deep. Horatio for instance is a friend of Hamlet. Horatio is the one that said the what is it ye would see speech.