Hamlet

... William Shakespeare's Hamlet the Film The film of Hamlet has become one of Shakespeare's most famous works. Many different directors have each given their own interpretation of Hamlet. We have looked at three different film versions. Kenneth Brannagh, Lawrence Olivier and Franco Zefirelli. The part of the play I am going to look at is Hamlets monologue; "To be, or not to be" I have chosen this monologue because it is the section of the play which most people remember. It is also a very strong powerful monologue. This speech is important to the play because Hamlet is asking the one question that many people askâ€why should I carry on living in this disrupted, sinful world? This makes it an important scene to the audience. Hamlet follows his argument through talking about the bad things in the world, but he moves on to talk about life after death. He finally

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