Kevin's Blog-o-Stuff

To start off these summaries, this play is highly recommended, but is meant to be lengthy and overlyexplained, but as Shakespeare has said in this play, "There's method to his madness." In Act 1, the events are portrayed as historical fiction, meaning that there is truth to this story, but mostly in the historical parts of these events. But anyways, the exposition is the threshold of the first couple of scenes, introducing Hamlet, his friends, his knights, and his "beloved" mother and loathsome uncle who recently married his deceased brother's wife (that's some nasty stuff), and of course, Hamlet is dealing with this sudden change, along with the death of his father, all within a period of nearly 2 months. Hamlet is both suicidal, borderline insane, but almost justified, if it weren't for moral code. Hamlet's guards had recently encountered what appeared to be the ghost of the deceased king, and decided to tell Hamlet so that he could speak to hi

Earlier today in my British Literature class, we read Act II, Scene 1, which was about how Laertis' father doesn't trust him in his own school, so he appoints a spy to badically talk trash about him and try and spread rumors around school to try and get a reaction out of the students. Now, normally, this would surprise me, but knowing that parents want to know more about their children at school mkes this a lot easier to understand, but knowing that his own father wants to talk trash about his own son is seemingly pitiful at an attempt to even try such a thing. Then again, I never know what the rest of the play has in store.

So today, I made tons and tons of research about the possible schools id be willing to apply to, and right now, i have a couple of possible ideas on where i would consider, i decided on CalArts, Los Angeles School Of Film And Music, and tbere might be more soon.