Wrong ideas that appeal to me
May. 10th, 2004 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberSo, I was just looking over the famous Hamlet soliloquy, and read on a bit through the following Hamlet/Ophelia scene, mentally (as I always do with Shakespeare) plotting out how I'd translate it into modern English. A la,
Which I find appealing, but I'm pretty sure I'm missing what the hell Hamlet's actually saying in that line. Now, given that that whole scene looks to me like Ophelia trying to help out her broody boyfriend with tough love and Hamlet basically saying, "Look, I'm a scumbag, like all my family, like all men, you should really just give up on us entirely", can anyone explain how precisely the honesty/beauty thing fits in?
Beauty can make honesty into trashiness
Sooner than honesty can make beauty into truth...
I didn't used to know what the hell that meant
But now I've got the proof.
Which I find appealing, but I'm pretty sure I'm missing what the hell Hamlet's actually saying in that line. Now, given that that whole scene looks to me like Ophelia trying to help out her broody boyfriend with tough love and Hamlet basically saying, "Look, I'm a scumbag, like all my family, like all men, you should really just give up on us entirely", can anyone explain how precisely the honesty/beauty thing fits in?
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Date: 2004-05-11 02:42 pm (UTC)I'd have to disagree with him, though. Having had ugly words applied to me, I've noted that they've no more virtue, as a class, than pretty words. Truth is not bought with nastiness.