Hamlet

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First I would just like to say (or write) that this is probably the best book I have ever read; I think it’s just amazing. The story is about this young prince of Denmark (Hamlet) whose father has just past away and his uncle has taken over the throne. Its main path is to let you see Hamlets journey from trusting everyone to total madness and to total distrust.
It all starts when one night Hamlet’s soldiers spots the old king’s ghost (Hamlets father), of course Hamlet gets all exited and wants to talk to him. Soon he will and he finds out that it was his uncle who killed his father.

Hamlet of course gets furious and wants to revenge him for this awful treachery and betray. But he doesn’t want to just say it in his face, he want to lure it out of him and this he manage to do by setting up a play about how his uncle (The present King) pours poison in his fathers ear.
The Present King now knows that Hamlet knows that he killed his father and he tries all sort of thing to hold Hamlet away from his path of success.

One of the things is that he thru the entire book has two of his Courtiers following Hamlet and watching his every step.

Hamlet of course finds this awkward and inappropriate, and one time in the book he says this just amazing thing to Guildenstern (one of the Courtiers) when they get a hold of this pipe:
I Quote:
“Guildenstern: O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly.
Hamlet: I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe?
Guildenstern: My lord, I cannot.
Hamlet: I pray you.
Guildenstern: Believe me, I cannot.
Hamlet: I do beseech you.
Guildenstern: I know no touch of it, my lord.
Hamlet: `Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops.
Guildenstern: But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony, I have not the skill.
Hamlet: Why look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me: you would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops: you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note, to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet I am easier to be played on, than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, thought you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. God bless you sir.”

This part reflects the book from so many ways and it is just amazing! How Hamlet compares himself to this primitive piece of wood, and by doing this he makes Guildenstern to look at him from a different angle and other judgemental ways.
But why does just this part reflect the book? Because the book hamlet is about that you shouldn’t judge anyone before you really get inside him or her; and not to play with others feelings.
Now back to the story; and after this his path to defeat the King gets more and more slippery, hillier, loamier you can call it what ever you want, but one thing is for sure; his life now hits the rollercoaster phase. He persuade his mother to go against her present husband the King, and this he manage to do by telling her about how the king killed her last husband and Hamlets father. But this sadly doesn’t seem to have such an impact on her...
She tries to understand Hamlet but for how much she ever may want it she cannot do anything about it, because if she would try, the King’s to powerful.
So she assumes that the only way to act is to go on in silence and act loyal as normal.
Hamlet understands and the book goes on to the day that he gets send away to England.
While away he gets captured by pirates and he gets stuck with them (The book doesn’t really say for how long) until one day when he manage to get home.
While back home he and his best friend Horatio meets up with the Clowns or grave- diggers as we now may call them.
They caught them when they are about to dig a large grave for, as Hamlet soon will find out, the love of his life Ophelia!
When he finds out what’s happened to her he takes it with a chock and gets more and more inaccessible for the rest of the world.
Ohh! Did I mention that Hamlet killed Ophelia’s father and that her brother Laertes has sworn to revenge Hamlet? Well he has! And this is the part when he tries to.
The way he manages to do that is by inviting Hamlet to play/duel with him.
Hamlet accepts the challenge and when the duel is in progress the king by mistake poisons Hamlets mother the Queen…
After that Hamlet stabs him with his sword and pours poison in his throat, all to die an as suffering death as his mother experienced.
Then the play continues and Hamlet kills Laertes.
After that Hamlet doesn’t live to hear the news from England because he drinks the last drops of the poison that had killed his mother and taken the life of his King… the rest is silence… You may say that he doesn’t live to tell the story.
The story ends with Horatio’s well-spoken words in front of Fortinbras the Prince of Norway.

I think the end is rather messy, BUT very eloquent done. Shakespeare writes it so that you place yourself in the characters positions and by summering up all the characters feelings so, so deep as he do, you suddenly know why Hamlet killed Polonius, The King and Laertes and this type of writing he doesn’t just apply in the end, no I should say that the entire book is written in the famous Shakespeare’es deep thought way!
Another thing that is rather amazing about the book is that it’s so modern yet it’s written in the sixteenth century!
And by pointing my finger at that, I mean that you can relate it with so many things from the book with common day problems, everything from small discussions with your parents to massive wars and world crisis.
My advise for everyone out there...