I know I should be working on my paper for STV 205 that’s due tomorrow (paper, haha, a paper that’s only 1,000 words long that is…okay, I’ll stop now before I start bad mouthing this class…again), but the above question has arisen at where I live. To cut to the chase here, Kitty brought up the famous line “To be, or not to be” as she saw it used in a drama she’s been watching (or maybe just a reference to it, but whatever). This subsequently lead to a brief discussion on Hamlet’s sanity.

Personally, I always found the chap to be a sane man myself, although Sam and Kitty appears to think otherwise. Sam appears to be under the impression that since the guy saw some ghosts, he just has to be nuts. I find this argument (just) a little…how to say…unfounded? “is the tempest about insane ppl / since it has magic” is what my brother brought up on MSN. Some people may be reading into Shakespeare’s works a little too much (perhaps some hints of “symbolism” should just be taken at face value?), but I think Sam’s interpretation is oversimplifying things a tad, you?

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