the meaning of old people

[alice wellintown]

> What, did Hamlet fucking plumb that which I did not?  What was he
> cynical...about?--I mean, beside dying?

The thread began with an assertion about Hamlet's mother:  she
betrayed her husband and her son by colluding with Hamlet's uncle who
murdered King Hamlet.

I think that is a misreading. A common one enough, as the reading of
this giant play has been distorted by males in the academy (Freudian
Readings & Co.), in the theater, and in hollywood. Gertrude is not
Lady MacBeth.

Hamlet is cynical, a paranoid cycnicism that makes him distrust not
only his loving mother, but his lover, Ophelia.

Of course, he is caught in a revenge tragedy of Shakespeare's making.

Hamlet uses his pen and his sword, in his struggle against the plot
and the part he has been cast into.

It his pen, his language, that makes Hamlet not a traditional Hamlt,
but Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Like most of the other plays Shakespeare wrote, this one is taken from
an existing drama, so he is working with a revenge tragedy plot, so
people are plotting against him and he is plotting against them, and
both are using plots, that is, theater, to take revenge.

So Hamlet use his pen to change the script of his Uncle so tht G&R are Dead.

We don't need to be feminist scholars to recognize that Ophelia is a
sympathetic character. She has been fucking Hamlet and her father has
been pleased with this arrangement, that is, until Hamlet is not made
King of Denmark after his father's passing. Hamlet abuses her in a ms
cruel manner at the play within the play; he is cynical and distrusts
her. Though he will, later in the play, when he, for the first time,
claims his crown at her funural, argue his love for her, we don't
believe him, because he has lost credibility, as we know he is a
cynical prince and now king, though he is not so when he is acting the
mad part, using his pen for revenge.

And Shakespeare, he is taking revenge on his rivals, the playwrights
who are filling theaters with  revenge and gimmicks to please an
audience who can not get enough blood, children actors, and salacious
scenes.

Parody.

Grace is set against Stocism in Lear....so Grace for an old man.