Shakespeare's Hamlet: Comparing The Book And The Movie

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There are several differences between Shakespeare’s Hamlet: the play and the movie. Both stories offer the same general plot, but there are certain aspects of each that make them different. The biggest difference between the play and the movie is the way they make the reader and viewer interpret the story. The play, however, is better than the movie because the play forces the reader the form their own conclusion.
The relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude is a very confusing one, making it hard to truly understand and comprehend. The play exhibits the relationship more rationally than the movie. It makes the reader question the relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude. This is good because Shakespeare wrote two different unique views of their relationship in order for the reader to question themselves and make their conclusion based on the reader’s interpretation. Some people …show more content…

This might make a lot of viewers feel uncomfortable. If a person watches this movie without reading the book, or before reading the book, they will just assume that Gertrude and Hamlet secretly love each other. The movie forces the viewer to see one side of the story, but in the play, there are two different sides of the stories and both have deeper meanings. The other reason why the book is better than the movie is because the book shows more of Hamlet’s true feeling. It makes the reader better understand Hamlet’s situation and state of depression.
To be, or not to be? That is the question whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep. (III,

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