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Are there any adaptations (stage, film, audio, whatever) that portray the king's ghost as wicked and cunning, though subtly?
Throughout the play, Hamlet has second guessings on the ghost being malign. Yes, the king is vengeful, but considering the outcome of the play (i.e.everyone dies), I've got doubts that the king's ghost is altogether unwicked (not a word, but really, who cares).
Whether or not my interpretation of the spirit's motives are accute, I'd still like to know if any adaptations that portray the king as wicked exist. All others portray it as frail, defeated, lonesome and distant; which is not altogether bad, the performances are most of the time outstanding.
It's not a matter of right/wrong, but a matter of variation and interpretation, even curiousity. Thoughts, recs?
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Another self bump just in case this 404s or archives before I get an answer.
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I don't have an answer to your question OP, but there was an interesting talk show episode that had Orson Welles and a bunch of other great actors on discussing Hamlet, and Orson was of the opinion that the ghost is definitely the hardest role to play in Hamlet, as any subtleties in the performance resonate throughout the play, changing the entire tone of the events that take place.
I can't give you an example of a performance that played with this, but if you were to watch that Orson Welles discussion panel/interview thing I'm sure he'll have mentioned one or two by name
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Who are on the Mt. Rushmore of literary authors? 2016-10-11 08:14:38 Post No.8606376
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Who are on the Mt. Rushmore of literary authors?
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At least two of them go to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, so who are the two remaining places for?
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>Tolstoy
lol
mix and match to taste:
Dante, Shakespeare, Homer, Dostoevsky, Joyce, Melville
prob Dante, Shakespeare, Homer, Joyce
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>>8606376
mhm
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Homer, Ovid, Dante and Shakespeare
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How do you identify logical thinking from sophistry in the Absence of Objective Truth?
This might sound stupid but it has been bothering me for a while.
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>>8606372
>anti-realism
kys
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>>8606377
Elaborate
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>>8606372
Spoiler: there is no distinction. Sophistry is logical thinking. You just got spooked by Plato.
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What are some good books that feels like this image?
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Reddit and shooting yourself in the fucking head
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All absurdism desu.
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shitty boring irony? try anything by chuck p.
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I need to read a book about war for an essay but I'm busy reading another book. What are some short books about war?
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Yoyur dikc
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There was a nice book by an Austrian painter from the 1920s about war, it gets a bit political though.
I think it was called "My Struggle" or something like that.
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Remarque and Hemingway are the obvious short ones
But do Junger's Storm and Steel, and focus on the ambiguity of his feelings about war, the exhilaration and "bringing out the best in a man" or being the realest test of moral mettle and spirit
Be sure to get an early version and figure out which English translations use which editions, because it was progressively softened in subsequent editions
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Critique my romance/drama story idea? 2016-10-11 07:13:47 Post No.8606313
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Critique my romance/drama story idea?
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I want you to be brutally honest if this sounds interesting or not? Yes there is some self-insertion but not too much I promise. =)
>average kind of socially awkward kid goes to college
>realizes no way he can pay absurd amount to graduate
>meets a reserved on the outside but brazen in the inside girl with same problem
>they become really good friends but relationship doesn’t grow into something more
>together they hatch a plan to make money
>she becomes a stripper and he becomes a pimp
>neither of them have any experience with this world but are desperate for money and give it a shot
>he deals with being intimidated by other pimps and learning how to hold his own
>she deals with daddy issues and increasing her sense of self worth
>both of them lead complete double lives
>initially they work together but the sex world drives them apart with feelings of jealousy, lust and greed.
>will they overcome these challenges and be able to admit love for one another?
I know it's very rough right now (especially the why they become sex workers part) so feel free to give me plot suggestions. Thanks!
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You sound like a virgin
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>cool guy with spiky hair gets motorcycle
>roughs up some nerds
>all the chicks dig him
>wants new sunglasses
>conflict arises
>sunglasses are purchased and conflict is resolved
>epilogue about pizza and video games
Is this good or is it great?
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there's specific threads for this buddy
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Where do you go for discussion after finishing a book? Right now I do /lit/ (archive) and Goodreads, but I wish there was more to that.
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I'm actually part of an elite bohemian group of literary types based in New York. We're all struggling artists, some painters, some directors, some writers, some poets. We spend our time doing drugs and having deep discussions about various artistic pursuits, but mostly about literature and philosophy, because we are all incredibly well read.
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>>8606270
Are your initials CC by any chance?
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>>8606270
i want to believe this is real. even if this post is satire this would be neat
What books simulate the feeling of have a gf?
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Wittingstein's Mistress will make you fall in love.
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The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
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>>8606225
dark tower series.
Long and drawn out and in the end once it's all over you feel disappointed and you feel like you wasted a lot of your life over nothing spectacular.
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Which author do you most identify with, /lit/?
Shelley for me: the terribly self-absorbed idealistic romantic crushed by life.
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>implying I can identify with someone motivate and talented enough to write literature
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For me, it's Salinger - intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.
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>babbys first romantic
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Why is it that sadness and melancholy are so artistically compelling?
When I was younger, I always found it difficult to understand why tragedies were so often held in higher esteem than works which dealt with the more positive end of the emotional spectrum. Even so, I've found myself drawn to exploring tragedy and disaster and grief in my own writing recently, but I still don't understand why these things engage me and society in general so much.
Thoughts? Your own experiences?
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>>8606198
tragedy is a lot more interesting to read and talk about
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>>8606198
Because life is tragic, and in the highest forms of art we crave life. Melancholy is the permanent state of human existence, whereas happiness or contentment are passing humours.
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what a pretentious faggot
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who was in the wrong here?
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Foucault was basically giving a Foucault 101 lecture on the relativity of worldviews and value systems, discursive construction, etc., with his implicit moral stance that all discourses threaten to become tyrannical.
Chomsky was basically giving a Chomsky 101 lecture on how we should preserve real positive civilisational values like justice and moderation through critiquing stuff.
Chomsky was being Anglo, Foucault was being French. Neither was really talking to the other.
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They're basically having two entirely different discussions, but chomsky is basic and repetitive.
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>>8606166
>Neither was really talking to the other
This. It was fucking pathetic to watch
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so i want to boil down the basic pattern of anime into a book 2016-10-11 05:22:01 Post No.8606092
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easy enough, a boy is met by the grim reaper on his 6th birthday and is informed he is now death.
the first arc is basically oh shit how do my powers work;
ok now im contributing in a positive way using my curse
then frieza like villian, which would be more like the MC sitting down and philosophically talking about death with death itself, having experienced the job himself. It ends with a question, and in which the narrator interrupts to say "neither death knew death."
FIN
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So this is the power of /lit/?
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maybe you should ask on reddit
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Try something a lot less gay desu
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>The Gay Science
>Ecce Homo
Was Nietzsche a poof?
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>Was Nietzsche a poof?
who cares
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>>8606083
No, english translator's are.
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>>8606083
>ecce homo
always makes me giggle because it sounds like "eze homo" which in hebrew would be "what a homo"
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How do you feel about this man?
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he's black and a libertarian, so you know liberal economics are BTFO forever now aight
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Chicken Soup for plebs. No real economist would read pleb shit like Sowell.
"Muh demand and supply" and "Muh liberty": the author.
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In terms of Modern Philosophy 2016-10-11 04:15:16 Post No.8605933
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In terms of Modern Philosophy
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who was the most important philosopher?
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Wittgenstein
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Me
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Zizek