to be or not to be

          All four actors played an incredible job on one of the most challenging roles imaginable.  Kenneth Branagh would have to be my personal favorite because of the setting and the mirror showed was a cool effect which gave the audience a different type of an aside. The setting was accurate according to the written text, in the castle. Olivier was good too, but i dont like black and white films. The ocean gave me the feeling of being alone and it goes with the speech.  Gibson was interesting, it was at the grave of his father and his voice would get louder and more angry which was more suspenseful. The modern version is not my favorite but it was smart of the director to have the setting in the action section in blockbusters. I can't wait to see what happens next in Hamlet. 

First ghost scene

       After watching three different clips of the ghost scene in hamlet, the one I enjoyed the most was the Mel Gibson version.  The Mel Gibson version was more realist, dark and believable therefore I enjoyed it more. The Kenneth Branagh is my second favorite, the ghost played a good role but I didn't like the flashbacks because you can't create flashbacks in a live play. The modern version was stupid just because its modern and if I were to come across it on tv without seeing the tittle, I wouldn't recognize it as Hamlet. Somethings were meant to be original and kept in its time period.

act 2

Act 2 was good and exciting.  Nora knew if she was caught forge signing a signature she would be taken away from her family and go to jail. Thats the reason why she asked the nurse about leaving her children and being paranoid.  Trovald has the power to assign Ms. Linde a job but krogstad has to get fired, so Nora trys to convince Trovald to keep Krogstad's job but fails.  I feel that Trovald did the rite thing because he would be looked at different for listening to his wife.  We must remember that this play takes place in the 1870's.

Krogstad has no choice but to black mail Nora because she failed to keep his job. Krogstad asked her if she thought of suicide and she said yes but didnt have the courage. Krogstad was reliefed that she won't do it but was still going to give the letter to her husband.  Nora finds out that Dr. Rank loves her and she took it the wrong way.  Dr. Rank is thinking of suicide and Nora tells him "That was Horrid of you. " Nora shouldnt have done that because Dr. Rank is weak right now and feels that he should leave Nora and Helmer.

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         Whats up! Its Mo and I'd like to start off by saying Im enjoying this play.  I like Helmer because he reminds me of a classic European man from the times of 1880's.  Nora is a tricky character, she is capable of doing a lot more things than you'd expect. We dont know Dr. Rank very much, but hes a really good friend of Helmer.  Mrs. Linde is a friend of Nora who recently lost her job and came to look for a job with                Helmer at the bank.
         Helmer got sick and Nora a female back in the day raised money to go to Italy for the cure.  She forged signed her dads name and Krogstad knows about such actions.  As Mrs. Linde is looking for a job, Krogstad was getting laid off and bribes Nora for a his job or he will blackmail her.  Now Nora has a problem, who shall she choose?