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7. 3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only

Hamlet kills Polonius for real this time, and in similar circumstances as was described by Gertrude last time. This doesn't break anything I don't think.

6. 4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance

Oh no, Ophelia is alive again. Well, let's go with the explanation for Polonius I forgot - she survived. Still traumatized, but she'll take it one day at a time, and some days are better than others. I guess in this version of the play Ophelia survives until the end?

5. 5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave

Oof, nevermind.

4. 2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"

Bad time for Hamlet to be asking Polonius about Ophelia. Tonally, this is rough. Oh yeah, and Polonius is still alive. He's unstoppable. Beyond that, Polonius surviving his daughter? Heartbreaking, but just as he stoically bore the pain of attempted murder/murder and resurrection, you can hardly tell. The line "have while she is mine" is now really sad. Hamlet is also planning a play that's already been performed, but let's say it's a different play.

3. 1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath

This is a major piece that would have been so useful earlier. This is an interesting spot for it still. Hamlet's done everything so far of his own accord, without being duty-bound to the ghost. Nevermind that the ghost talked about Hamlet's purpose in 3.4. Maybe the ghost forgot that he never actually told Hamlet to take revenge, and Hamlet was being polite and pretending to know what the ghost was talking about.

2. 5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

What a decisive Hamlet. He swears revenge, and then immediately does it.

1. 3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery

They're ghosts now. It looks like Hamlet's questions about the afterlife remain unresolved even in the afterlife. His treatment of Ophelia is even more ugly and cruel considering what he knows, even if she is a ghost now. He has fulfilled his duty, but it didn't give him peace. If anything, it made him more bitter. He saw in the material world, a social order he impossibly needed to both transgress and become subsumed by. He believed the roles he eluded existed as gestures and actions he must perform, which he tied to the material world, and his material being, hence the wish that his solid flesh would melt. The body, like the inky cloak is yet another inadequate signifier. However, free from the body, Hamlet is a piece of nothing, babbling incoherent and unaware. As always, he must unpack his heart with words, which are yet more signifiers. He is discovering that there is no inner essence, a floating consciousness that is our pure self trapped by the limitations of flesh. Rather, we are material creatures who self-create through complex, dialectical relationship with the external world and society.
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