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Post by mohahaha on Mar 5, 2016 12:25:57 GMT
So, throughout the story. Hamlet suffered from Madness, his father's death, and basically everyone were mistrusting others. To which many life lessons showed up in the story.
What life lesson did you learn from the story Hamlet ?
For me, I learned that is to be careful of whom you trust. Not in the sense that not to trust anybody, but I felt that Hamlet is like a kite, not knowing who to trust. And even his friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern whom were his friends, betrayed him by spying on him. As a result, you never really know someone instincts whether the person is genuinely friendly or manipulative.
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Post by lucia on Mar 5, 2016 18:34:58 GMT
I noticed that the problems kept piling up because no one was taking reponsibility for his or her action. It began with Gertrude when she married Claudius and was insensitive towards her son throughout the entire story, which causes deaths that were really unnecessary. Gertrude is not the only cause of Hamlet's tragedy. Claudius, who seemed to be regretting his decision to murder his brother, does not actually feel sorry for it. This is shown in the quote, “My words fly up but my thoughts remain below", which means that he prays to God but God knows what is in his heart and his words mean nothing. Instead, when Laertes blames Claudius, he places the blame on Hamlet, avoiding killing Hamlet himself. I learned how important it is to take responsibilty for my actions because I would at least be able to make my own decisions and take control of my life.
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Post by jonah21 on Mar 6, 2016 1:09:24 GMT
What I learned what that perhaps revenge isn't always the best option. In the story, everyone had their own motives, some of whom wanted revenge as well such as Fortinbras and Hamlet, himself. As the story progressed, revenge seemed to be always a topic of discussion. Hamlet kept thinking about his revenge on Claudius until the end where everyone eventually dies. It was because of one person's revenge that others became suspicious and planned to kill him first. But everything backfired and everyone died.
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Post by sangjoon on Mar 6, 2016 2:29:19 GMT
I learn lots of life lessons through hamlet. One most remarkable lesson in my memory is that revenge is never right choice to make. Revenge always make another revenge and there are tons of risks in doing revenge. Some revenge might make your life in danger such as Hamlet in the story. Think of what might happen when if hamlet did not plan to revenge to his uncle. The story line might be very different from now and hamlet does not need to become psycho actor and there might be peace. What choice would you make when you are hamlet in the story? Do you want revenge although you know the end?
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Post by andrewcho77 on Mar 6, 2016 6:06:26 GMT
I learned that you shouldn't trust anyone and revenge is not a good choice. If you do something bad for another person it will come back to you. It's just like karma. If you do revenge then something will come back to you like Hamlet's death. I also learned that you shouldn't trust anyone. If hamlet trusted everyone then he would kill claudius right away. However, He made a play just to make sure that Hamlet father ghost was correct. There are many other life lessons in this story. However, these two stand out.
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Post by Emily on Mar 6, 2016 10:04:02 GMT
A life lesson I learned from Hamlet was you should not procrastinate in anything, and if you want to do something do it fast. If Hamlet had immediately believed the ghost and killed Claudius right away, he could have saved himself the trouble of him and Laertes fighting or Gertrude and Ophelia dying. However, because he took his time and had to confirm multiple times that Claudius was truly guilty, all of the following events happened which eventually lead to majority of the characters in Hamlet dying.
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Post by Tharu on Mar 6, 2016 11:17:00 GMT
What i learned was not to trust people, not even your own parents, as for Hamlet. And also it is better to not to be a rebellious, because Hamlet was a rebellion, and he tried to kill Claudius to get revenge from him, since he killed Hamlet's father who was the former king. If Hamlet just go with the normal situation, getting the idea that his father is already gone and just go with the situation, there won't be any trouble, he will be alive, his mother will be alive, Ophelia would be alive and everybody would be alive. So i think it is better to not to break the norms and not to be a rebellion.
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Post by Jooyoung on Mar 6, 2016 11:47:50 GMT
Hamlet is actually full of moral lessons. For example, there is Polonius's advise to Laertes about socializing with others and maintaining reputation, which can be applied to real life. Also there is Hamlet telling his mother how to break her bad habit in Act 3 Scene 4, which can be applied to break our own bad habits. According to Hamlet, a bad habit can be replaced with good ones. Getting through that day without practicing the bad habit makes it easier to get through next one, and on.
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Post by Jonathan on Mar 6, 2016 12:48:39 GMT
I learned from the story that revenge is not always the best option to solving a problem. Even though Hamlet was angry at Claudius for murdering his father, maybe it would have been better to approach the situation in a different manner. Fortinbras had a much more successful time with revenge against Hamlet because his father murdered his own father, but that was only because everyone was dead at the end of the story so he was the only one left to take over the kingdom.
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Post by Jessica (Yeeun) Kim on Mar 6, 2016 13:23:57 GMT
There are many life lessons In the “Hamlet”. From this story, I learned that people always live in misunderstanding and mistrusting. For example, Polonius is misunderstanding Hamlet. He thinks that Hamlet’s madness is because of Ophelia. hamlet is mistrusting of Claudius and at the end, everyone except Horatio died. I believe this misunderstand and mistrust is very common in our life. Importantly, we should always aware of these misunderstand and mistrust.
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Post by ETypeRegymon on Mar 6, 2016 13:48:04 GMT
Miscommunication/lack of communication is fatal. Hamlet's crazy act prevented anyone from talking to him properly, which prevented anyone else to argue with him or question why he's acting off. Imagine what would happen if at the beginning of Act 2, Hamlet and Gertrude talked privately about Hamlet suspecting Claudius killed Hamlet's dad by poison, and Hamlet told Gertrude the plan of using the play to catch Claudius acting suspicious. Whatever the result was, it would have been better than the "Then everyone died. The end." the plot went through. So if they had talked it out, things wouldn't have gotten as awful as they did in the story. (It probably would end up with Gertrude accusing Hamlet is nuts if he mentioned the ghost, but he doesn't have to now, does he? Claudius is more likely to win in the scenario though).
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Post by timmy on Mar 6, 2016 14:41:49 GMT
I learned that revenge only leads to another revenge.
It is like an epidemic- it cannot be ended. The only way, however, is through forgiveness. It is curious to point out that Bible focused so much on forgiveness, yet all the characters, who are all Christians, decided to work for revenge and not forgive.
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Post by kevv on Mar 6, 2016 15:44:04 GMT
What I learned from this play is that..then or now, people never change. Whether if you lived in the early centuries or if you live now in the 20th centuries, people will always seek for revenge and try to manipulate others to benefit themselves. For example, I would compare the ghost that appeared as a person who tries to manipulate others in this world. So..people never change? I guess..and dont try too hard too impress others because none of that will benefit you once you die  |
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Post by juliaj on Mar 11, 2016 17:03:15 GMT
I think the moral is that there's no real good or bad and that you shoulnd't be so sneaky and do things that are super selfish like killing your brother and then marrying his wife to be the king. you shouldnt seek revenge to the point that it breaks you and other people around you. Basically, you shouldn't let your desires get out of hand.
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Post by jin794 on Mar 12, 2016 7:51:27 GMT
I think the story of Tragedy of Hamlet tried to teach us the basic moral in our life. The cause of all of these tragedy, such as death of Polonius, Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, and Hamlet, is adultery or ambition of power. Claudius was eager to gain power and took over the throne. Then, Claudius and Gertrude married. This immorality basically led to all of the tragedies listed above.
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