Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Whats Hamlet to you or you to Hamlet?

It seems that every teenager knows the judgement that is associated with them wherever they go. They carry the burden of sterotypes, this may seem like a small task but the load is heavy when you are a teenager. For these reasons teenagers feel as if they are Hamlet because they are a, "rogues and peasent slave"  (Hamlet, 99) to society. Often it feels that even if you try your hardest to create a good image for yourself, it only takes 2 seconds for someone to destroy it with a influential stereotype. Unfortuantely for these reasons teenagers are often confused and can become angry, they are unsure of what to do and how they can overcome these problems that hinder their ways of living. Due to this they often feel like, "a coward, who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face, tweaks me by the nose, gives me a lie i' the throat, as deep as the lungs? who does me this?" (Hamlet, 99) We search for someone to blame for theses stereotypes but come up empty handed 99% of the time. With no one to seek help from teenagers often result to alternative methods of dealing with stress which results in their own disassociation from family an friends. As a result when teenagers comes across the text of Hamlet they are able to associate their feelings and emotions to something and often feel that they have a special connection to the character of Hamlet.

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