Hamlet

When you think of one play that has influenced all source of media in the past 200 or so years. It’s not hard to see but one inspiration, Hamlet. Hamlet had influenced all, from movie to music, and even video games on the standard for what a character should be and the type of emotions a reader should feel. Personally, I have probably read the play at least 30 times, whether it’s for school or jus even for fun. My favorite scene will always be scene 1 act 1. In that scene an officer named Bernardo comes to releive the watchmen Francisco. When he walks towards him, Bernardo starts to here his footsteps and, since he cannot see him because it is dark begins to get scared until he finally realizes that it is him. Bernardo is shortly joined by Marcellus, and Horatio, who is a friend of Prince Hamlet. To two watchmen have convinced Horatio to stand with them, since the have something extremely shocking to show him. They tell him that the past couple of nights they have seen the ghost of the recently dead king, who appears randomly throughout the night. At first Horatio doesn’t believe them, bit then suddenly the ghost appears before them and vanishes a second later. After that happens they all suggest that they tell Hamlet as even though the ghost didn’t take to them it will surely talk its son. For this scene I actually watched a very unique version of Hamlet that was made in 2000 and in this version it is set in modern times, and Hamlet wakes up to see his dead dad on the outside of the balcony and let’s him in. This is a huge difference compared to the play where the guards find out about the ghost then tells Hamlet.