Hamlet. A few questions on how to represent it.
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for one of my classes, i have to creatively represent Hamlet (the play). i would like to focus on the loss of identiy throughout the play (Hamlet and Ophelia), illustrated through a kinetic typography video. i have a lot of great information, but i have no idea how to represent it! i know i said kinetic typography, but if i were to do then i am forced to pick a soliloquy, thus rendering me uncreative. how can i, with the information i’ve given, “jazz” up my creative assignment?
i don’t mind do kinetic typography, but what would it say? i cannot be a soliloquy word for word, i have to somehow make it much more creative. but how?
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To begin with, I’m not sure that Hamlet loses his identity in the play. I would rather take the opposite point and assert that he finds himself. The Hamlet of act 5 is a fully self-aware person.
I think you could make the case that Ophelia loses her identity, on the other hand, and I think their scene together (act 3 scene 1) could be used to illustrate it. Ophelia is confronts Hamlet at the instigation of her father and the king, and she is verbally abused in return. This has a detrimental effect on her psychologically, and that coupled with her father’s murder at Hamlet’s hand undoes her.
Thinking of Ophelia, you could have the type get smaller and smaller, yet constantly moving. In the end it apperas as a blue-green “stream” of letters. Then her garland floats by.
Personally my favorite scene in Hamlet is the “Alas poor Yorick” part where he and Horatio come across Yorick’s skull.
Make sure you work in a birth certificate into the mix to make it topical and contemporary.
There are many monologues in Hamlet that can be chosen instead of the ‘to be or not to be’ and there are many, many ways to be creative. Creativity is in the interpretation, angle, intonation, and presentation and in how obscure or accessible you make your piece- creative work feels feel new and surprising or thought provoking. IMO, something like omitting capitalizations doesn’t qualify as ‘creative…’
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