Blog #14: Hamlet Act II

Steven: "The guy is a psychopath"
Hey guys, I just got back from a friend’s house, and I just saw a great movie. I think it was called Fear or something like that. It has Reese Witherspoon in it, because, you know, she’s totally amazing and everything. And, like, it totally matches how I feel right now. Nicole, like totally loves David, like I love Hamlet, but her dad Steven is totally not okay with him. At the beginning, she was like “you know, you’re not at all like I expected you to be the first time I met you,” which is what I thought too, especially when Hamlet wrote me a letter saying that he “love[s] thee best, O most best, believe it” (2.2.121). Nicole tells her dad "it's your problem with David, not mine" which I can totally relate to my dad, because he thinks that Hamlet went crazy for "the very ecstacy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself" (2.1.100-101). My dad thinks that when he forbid me from seeing Hamlet, it caused his craziness. My father even mentioned to me how when he spoke to Hamlet, he mentioned how I was "one fair daughter, and no more, the which he loved passing well" (2.2.353-354). This means he is still in love with me, even if he is too crazy to see it, right? He still loves me, he just believes my father is a "fishmonger" (2.2.173), and my father doesn't love me. I am just so distraught over how I miss the Hamlet I once knew. But I suppose I understand my father's feelings towards Hamlet now that I have watched this movie. David leads Nicole down a dark and scary path, and I fear that Hamlet might do the same. I guess I shall need to be more weary before he takes "me by the wrist and [holds] me hard" again, or worse. What do you guys think I should do?