Wednesday, October 30, 2013

If it be not now, yet it will come


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Hamlet finally reconciles the inevitability of the deed that he must do and the consequence of doing that deed. I cannot think of another tragic hero in Shakespeare who finds the fatalistic calm that is the eye of the storm, before he is completely swallowed up by that storm.


Jude Law, as Hamlet

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