ol' hamlet

luckysloan777 · Outlaw Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 225 City: ptown

well it has come time for english mid term over hamlet. I know there are some college students on this board and i was just wondering what some of yalls thesis statements were. I know somebody on here has done something over hamlet...but thanks

jason_ssr · Posted: Mar 17, 2004 9:47 am Post subject:

isnt a hamlet one of those little mini sausage links? Laughing

Jello John · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 1936

Here's a half soliloquy I wrote for my English class. I was too lazy to finish it.

Too much, or not too much, that is the price
Whether ‘tis nobler in the wallet to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take loans against a sea of debt
And by obtaining own things? To buy: to spend;
Some more. To buy it cheap we do depend
The yard-rake and the thousand dollar clock
That finds me as heir, ‘tis a compensation
Devoutly not to be wish’d. To buy: To spend;
To spend: purchase your dreams: add, that to my tab;
For in that spending of dollars where dreams may become
What we have sought from this mall’s store aisles
Must give us pleasure: there’s the check
That ends calamity of ailing lifestyle
For who could buy chips and corn with a dime,
Tax collector’s wrath, the poor man’s consumed
By the pangs of deficient loot, the wallet’s empty
The incidence is often, and…

Hamlet is great.

Chales · Guest

I justified why Hamlet was a tragic hero and discussed what a tragic hero is. Or something like that. It wasn't too hard.

Then I did my Othello essay on the dialogue of Act 3 scene 3.

And now we're reading Macbeth and a bunch of the sonnets. We're going on a Shakespeare spree.

luckysloan777 · Outlaw Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 225 City: ptown

sounds fun, the next thing we have to do is a mid-summer nights dream.

Tyler T · Posted: Mar 18, 2004 10:57 am Post subject:

Am I the only one that hate's Shakespeare?

ontrider · Ladies Man Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 16491 City: Russia

Tyler T, nope - I find most of it boring as hell.

finkle · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 4067

Tyler T, ontrider, I'm not a fan either.

AND.....mid summer's nights dream is about the worst play I've ever seen. I didn't even waste my time reading it.....just the two hours watching it.

Grace B. · Posted: Mar 18, 2004 2:29 pm Post subject:

I'm wasn't a big fan of Hamlet, I found it to be pretty boring. We had to write an essay and my teacher gave us 4 topic to chose from. I picked the one that was like Hamlet was so worried about himself, that he didn't show any compassion towards others. I really didn't know what I was talking about in it and I still managed to get a B+!

nmballa · Posted: Mar 18, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject:

I live a five minute walk from kronbourg, the scene of the play hamlet. Ive toured it a couple times. Really interesting. I go down and sit on the emabattlements and read when the weather is nice. Real cool place.

Maestro · Posted: Mar 18, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject:

English is too easy... I didn't read any books, and still always managed to get at least an A in it. Everything was pure BS... hence, the reason why I can't remember what the hell I talked about in any of my essays. Once I was done with it, it was gone from my head.

NorCalStud686 · Posted: Mar 18, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject:

Maestro, when i was a freshman, i got all my essay's off the net Laughing

Tyler T · Posted: Mar 18, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject:

Maestro, that's the beauty of English classes. As long as you can support it with coherant thoughts and organize it, you can say whatever the hell you want, and no one can argue with you....because there is no right answer. It all really just comes down to being able to critically analyze writing. If you can take a work, throw away its intentions, and start to look at what it is really doing, then you're doing what you're supposed to.

NorCalStud686, if your teacher wasn't an idiot, you'd have failed the class. It's so easy these days with the resources available to pick out plagarism. The way I always looked at my school work was...if I was uninterested with the work or pressed for time, and I was going to cheat to get it done, I just didn't do it. In essance, it's the same thing. You're only going to get out what you put in. Garbage in, garbage out ya know? Grades are stupid. Getting a "grade" is about the least important aspect of education.

Maestro · Posted: Mar 18, 2004 5:16 pm Post subject:

Tyler T - yep - that's why I 'like' English even though I'm not really a fan of writing. It comes easily to me... One of the reasons I was thinking about taking it for postsecondary education. But, I have no idea what I'd do with an English degree (don't want to teach) - so I decided against it.

NorCalStud686 - yeah dude, you're lucky. People in my classes did that a few times and got caught - I think for an essay on Lord of the Flies like three people ended up handing in the same essay. I used the internet a lot for ideas and suggestions, but I'd never just print or buy an essay online. That's just not too smart.

Tyler T · Posted: Mar 18, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:

Maestro, I think pretty much everyone that has an English degree either teaches or goes to graduate school for something more tangible.