Thinking Activity-Post viewing task Hamlet

                                                Hamlet by Kenneth Branagh

1) How faithful is the movie to the original play?

The movie Hamlet by Kenneth Branagh helps to understand  circumstances and characters in better way rather than reading play,though there were originality in play rather than movie but Branagh has used all dialogues and scenes as same as in play.Thus we can say that the movie is faithful to the original play. 

2)  After watching the movie, have your perception about play, characters or situations changed?

                   As above mentioned Branagh has depicted all characters and situations similar to the original play so my perception about any character or situation have not change3

 3)  Do you feel ‘catharsis’ while or after watching movie? If yes, exactly when did it happen? If no, can you explain with reasons?

           While watching movie I felt catharsis with the character of Ophelia.She is very obidiant to his father and brother.She loves Hamlet and Hamlet also loves her,but her father and brother has said her to stay away from Hamlet and in trying of took revenge of his father’s death Hemlet couldn’t be able to meet her but she gone mad and also dies in waiting for Hamlet.

4) Does screening of movie help you in better understanding of the play?

           The screening of movie Hamlet helped me to underqstad characters and consequences in better way.

5) In the beginning of the movie, camera rolls over the statue of King Hamlet out side the Elsinore castle. The movie ends with the similar sequence wherein the statue of the King Hamlet is hammered down to the dust. What sort of symbolism do you read in this?

In the begining of the movie camera rolls over the statue of King Hamlet out side the Elssinore castlse2.The movie ends with the similar sequence  where in the statue of the king Hamlet is hammered down to the dust.It symbolises that revenge is not good.We can connect it with Paradise lost because in Paradise Lost Satan's revenge becomes the reson for Man's Fall

6) Which of the above mentioned approaches (in Pre-viewing task) appeals you more than other?Why? Give reasons.

          While studying the play through movie,two approaches which appeal me is;

1.Psycho-Analytical approach,

2.Feminist Approach.