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Hamlet written by William Shakespeare tells the story about a Prince named Hamlet who has turned mad after his father's death, Hamlet looks at his father as a hero to him cause he was a great king,Hamlet's father was killed by Hamlet's uncle claudius Hamlet knows this. Hamlet acting mad does not only affect his life hamlet makes it affect others life to for example Hamlet's relationship with his mother Gertrude was a very good while his father was alive was amazing but after his father died there is hatred towards her not for who she is but for what she has done, Gertrude was very quick to remarry the king's brother. The Novel shows Hamlet's relationships but can not show the intimacy between the character the film depicts the relationships …show more content…
when he says this it means from the start know of the book it is not going to be good. In the film the first scene is everybody at king Hamlet’s funeral which the film added in this shows from the start that something is wrong with denmark cause we see the dead king instead of seeing a ghost we do not know who it is.The funeral was talked about in the book but no actual scene where they are at his funeral, the movie also takes out Fortinbras because we only see or here about him three times so the director sees no point in adding him,in the book Fortinbras becomes a major character by the ending but to be put in the book only twice seems pointless to include …show more content…
For example when Hamlet is talking to Ophelia while she is trying to give his belongings back it seems that the Hamlet is just insulting her in a calm manner but in the novel,but as we see in the film we see that he i very angry while he is saying Hamlet says “Go. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry,/ marry a fool, for wise men know well enough/ what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and/ quickly too. Farewell”(III.i.138-142). Seeing hamlet full of anger and sadness in the film it is shown by crying and screaming seeing him do this helps show how much pain he is going threw with his father dead and his uncle marrying his mother. The novel cannot show much emotion because it is expressed in words in Hamlet's soliloquies he speaks on how he needs to avenge his father but never does because he is too much of a coward, when Hamlet is speaking there is so much anger and sadness that he is going thru you can not tell if he sad or if he is just angry in the novel the film showed that the novel couldn't, all the reader could tell is that hamlet misses his

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