[ SECRET POST #3918 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3918 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Dance Moms)


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[In Treatment]


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05.
[Life]


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06.
[glee & buffy the vampire slayer]


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[Hinterlands]











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Comments

Re: Hamlet

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah the two fatal flaws scholars usually point to are inability to act. If Hamlet had killed Claudius when he had the chance (when Claudius is pretending to pray), Ophelia, his mother, Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius, and Hamlet himself wouldn't have ended up dying. He is obsessed with death, specifically, what happens after death, and that freezes him in place. He worries if he kills himself, he'll go to hell. If he kills Claudius at the wrong moment, he might go to heaven. Is the ghost real or is it a demon?

Of course, some scholars find issue with the idea of a fatal flaw, and specifically indecisiveness being Hamlet's, especially since there are also times when Hamlet acts without thinking, like the killing of Polonius. In a way, you could read his flaw as an inability to act because he gets more obsessed with the consequences of his actions, consequences which he does not want to face (going to hell, mainly), which could be exemplified in the way he brushes off the consequences of his impulsive actions (hurting Ophelia, killing Polonius, sending R&G to their deaths).

Re: Hamlet

[(Anonymous)]

If Hamlet had killed Claudius when he had the chance (when Claudius is pretending to pray), Ophelia, his mother, Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius, and Hamlet himself wouldn't have ended up dying.

The only issue I have is that, if that's the case, the entire play hangs on that scene. And it seems too thin for that.

Re: Hamlet

[(Anonymous)]

Why? Lots of stories hang on one mistake or scene that all other mistakes can be traced back too. It's related to the whole concept of hamartia.