movie or book?

I like the movie way better because I can visual what is happening and listen to the tone of the actors and actresses. I like seeing things rather than listening to them and trying to figure them out. Sometimes the movie is a little weird and the things that are on screen I would not like to see but overall I like the movie better then the book. Also with the book I get confused because there are different people reading all the time and different tones and people who get into and people who do not and in the movie it is consitent. They are in their character the whole time and the same voice over and over. I think that the director did an ok job with the tone and stuff. I think he made it in his interuption and redid some parts to make it a better movie.

art

I am not so sure that art or plays reflect what a person is going through. There are probably some plays out there that are about a person's life or what is happening to them at that moment, but most plays are made up with a little bit of experience mixed in, but not the entire play. I think that art, like paintings, could possibly be about self reflection, but to me art is more something that looks pretty, not a way of expressing yourself. I think if you were a poet, then that type of art would be self reflecting and would be more what you are going through at that moment in time. In Hamlet, the lines that he submitted to the players is obviously something that is going on in Hamlet's life right now, but the whole play is not all about Hamlet or the lives of others. It is just a play to make people laugh or keep them entertained. Nothing self reflecting.

Is Hamlet a Threat??

I think that Claudius thinks Hamlet is a threat but only a threat to the throne. I do not think that he realizes Hamlet's intentions of getting his father's revenge. I believe that Claudius thinks he is a threat because in Act 2, Scene 2, he freaks out over why Hamlet has gone mad but does not seem to care at all about Norway wanting to make a pathway through his land to Poland. All he wants to hear about is why Hamlet has gone mad. Claudius only thinks of himself and what is best for him, and right now, his throne is the most important thing to him and so he wants to make sure that Hamlet does not take that from him. I do not believe that he knows that the throne is not the only thing Hamlet wants to take from him...

Hamlet and Ophelia

I do not think that Hamlet ever actually loved Ophelia. I think he lusted after her and wished that he loved her, but he never really did. In the letters Hamlet wrote to her, he said he loved her and his intentions were true, but he never said why he loved her or what made him fall in love with her. He was never about a relationship with her or even about putting thought into what he said in her letters. Hamlet thought a lot about getting back at Claudius and how he was going to get revenge but he did not put much thought into Ophelia's letter in Act 2, scene 2. As Laertes said, I think Hamlet's thoughts were more toward sexually reasons and more wishing he was able to love her. He might have been using Ophelia to try and escape his destination of having someone chose who he shall marry because of his position in the kingdom.