An additional blog in response to the play

I didn't expect for the actors to dress in a more modern style of clothing. It's very interesting to see how each of the actors have their style of dressing. The King and Queen costume doesn't look very modern. Hamlet way of dressing looks pretty modern. His way of dressing is just like a gentlemen dressing up very formally. Ophelia costume is very modern. Her dress can be describe as a nowadays sun dress, nothing special about it.

From the way they act really surprise me. It was very different from the way I pictured. Hamlet was very energetic. He was swing on bars (very amazing and surprising), and very smiley. The Hamlet that I thought about should be very depress. The similarities between the actor and the one from what I think is that both of them are very good at making fun and insulting others.

Queen Gertrude in the play seems like a slut. The way how she unbutton her clothes to persuade King Claudius to end his conversation with Polonius and go to bed with her. My Gertrude was an upright queen. She shows royalty in her. She makes me feel as though she married King Claudius so that she could protect her son by staying as a queen. The only similarity is that Gertrude is afraid of her son craziness but still really loves him.

To me Ophelia has to be a slower talker. She shows all her royalty to her father without any attitude towards anyone especially her father. In the play, she talks really fast. She shows an attitude towards her father even though she agreed to stay away from Hamlet. When I was reading, I felt as though her father has persuade her that Hamlet wasn't a good guy for her but while watching the play, it felt as though she was being force to leave Hamlet more than to be persuaded to leave him.

Horatio is that only character that seem to stay the same. He doesn't talk much but he surely was a good friend to Hamlet. He was being pretty fair and quiet. He is the smartest character throughout the whole play.He stays out of the whole situation and just look in as a bystander most of the time unless Hamlet ask him to get involve.