Blog Assignment #3

I am royalty and I should be treated as that. Everyone around me knows that and needs to respect my importance. Even Hamlet. Although he is my son, and I love him, his actions have been outlandish of late. I have decided to change my font to Informal Roman, because I need my writings to show that I want to take control and fix the turmoil that surrounds me. I also chose it to show my warmth and love for the individuals that surround me, no matter their actions. Hamlet forces me into a conundrum, I said to hamlet after he attacked Polonius, “These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears; / No more, sweet Hamlet!” (3.4.92-93). He does awful things and speaks awful words, but all I want to do is turn my head the other way.

I chose to change the color of my blog to green, because it symbolizes tranquility and the natural world, because that is what I want the most. Hamlet is making rash and thoughtful actions that are messing up the tranquility of my life. I wish he could just make amends with the ghosts of his past that are causing him stress. He was speaking to a spirit and when I asked him who it was he responded, “My father, in his habit as he lived! / Look where he goes, even now, out at the portal!” (3.4.133-134). I hope that all can return and life can be calm as it once was.

I really am not able to expect what is to happen next; the actions of those around me seem extremely erratic and out of the norm. There is almost no way to tell what is going to happen next. Hamlet especially worries me. He seems more and more distant and divided from me and Claudius as the days pass by. He has even accused Claudius of killing the late king! How absurd! It worries me of what other thoughts float through his head. I asked him to sit next to me and he replied, “No, good mother, here’s metal more attractive.” (3.2.109). The background of my blog represents the general mood of those around me, there is a lot of resentment and anger that floats in the atmosphere, I hope it can dissipate.