Weeding My Garden >:D

The quote I chose is from Hamlet's first soliloquy; the quote is,"how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely." In this quote Hamlet is comparing the world to an unweeded garden. He is referring to Claudius when he says that "things rank and gross in nature possess it  merely." Weeds could be thought as a corruptible person or people. Weeds in nature start off as only one or two weeds, but then they start to spread like wildfire until the other plants are being sucked dry of nutrients. This quote can still be applied to today. In my opinion our whole government is an "unweeded garden" even if the politicians do truly try to help the citizens it is also for their own benefit or gain. If the government truly wanted to end the war or get better health-care bills we would have by now. Our government is corruptible though because we 'need' the gas from the Middle East. If we really wanted electric cars that ran efficiently and for long periods of time we would have created them by now. Instead our government revolves around the idea of oil which pollutes the ocean, air, and soil. Capitalism and 'Democracy' has turned our government into the rankest garden. We preach about freedoms yet we invade other countries to 'protect Democracy.' Our invasions have caused my rebellions which has thrown the Middle East into turmoil. That ties into another quote said by hypocritical Polonius but that is a whole different story... Well this is the quote I chose and why I chose it.

Ken Branagh's Hamlet Depiction

In class we watched three short depictions of Shakespeare's famous play Hamlet. The three directors were Franco Zeffirelli, Ken Branagh, and Mike Almereyda. I believe Ken Branagh's movie was the best idea of what Hamlet would have looked like. His version was a 19th century storyline but the music, background, acting skills, and the ghost truly show how the play should be depicted. The movie started with bell tolls and cries far in the distance. This automatically creates suspense and fear. Alongside with that the background is dreary, cold, and depressing. The actors truly looked scared when not knowing who was approaching. They shivered and displayed the bitter cold and made me picture that I was freezing along with them. When the ghost came, it invoked true fear into the hearts of the characters. The actors clearly portrayed the fear that the characters would have felt. People may argue that the actors seemed older than we would imagine but we work with what we got, and in this case a masterpiece was created. This is why Ken Branagh's movie depiction was the most accurate.