Imprisoned Hamlet

This radio show, I found shocking. It amazes me how the prisoners each relate to a different character, and how each role connects to their past. Reading Hamlet will now be different, a little maybe. The way the prisoners change the characters by talking about them and relating them to their lives make the play deem different. Big Hutch for example, says Hamlet has no problem, no conflict. He knows Claudius killed his father, he doesn't just sit to think about it, he is supposed to do something. Just as he probably did.

It's amazing how the people start to open up, some of them more than others. Talking a little about their families and the reason for their jail time. It shocked me how, for example, in the play Claudius is talking about the remorse he feels after killing his brother. These people feel the same, some of them would like to change the past. More than a play, it's a reality to them. They have to face the consequences of killing someone.

I like to write, and often times, i don't connect the writing to reality. Or i do, but it just seems fantasy, a little imagination. This radio show helped me realize, that what i write about, is or can be someones reality, and they can't do anything about it.

As Big Hutch sees himself, how he compares prison to the sea is a little ironic. To start, the sea is very wide, there is lots of freedom, and the prison is the complete opposite. But he is right in some points, the big one controls the little ones, as he says, the killer whale controls the guppies.

I like very much how the characters that played Hamlet did it. It really shows the confusion going on in Hamlet and how he tries to deal with it but he really can't. It was mentioned, that Hamlet was just one more person in the Hamlets crew. The four prisoners probably had messed up lives, just like Hamlet did.

After hearing this show, I will pay closer attention to Hamlet. I am sure from now on I will make connections to the prisoners, thinking about their reaction and their way of interpreting everything.