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Hamlet by William Shakespeare STBO's 3rd Official Book Discussion for April 1 - April 30, 2021 (edit)

Hamlet is the winner of our poll, and is our group's third official book discussion for April 1 to April 30, 2021.

Please feel free to join in and share your thoughts, ask questions, answers, and comments in the comments section below.

If your post will have spoilers... please warn the other members on the top of your message that your thoughts/comments will have spoilers in them. Thank you and enjoy your book discussion everyone.

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This novel is available to read for free online. The following links are for your easy reference:





This novel is available on audiobook for free on youtube. The following link is for your easy reference:



And if you have finished reading the play you can watch the Hamlet move:

Laurence Oliver's 1948 Hamlet:

Hamlet at Elsinore:

Hamlet Play performance on stage:

I read this play a third time, and each time, I get an idea I never had before about

I never thought of this before. This thought just hit me. Ophelia has a father and brother. No mention when the mother died. Okay. As a single parent, Polonius has to assume both paternal and maternal duties for his daughter. Obviously he would not be as attentive to his daughter's female needs as a mother would do.

Also, being King Claudius's right hand man, that would be a stressful job, and he would assumedly neglect his daughter from her time of needs, especially during her teenage years. I am assuming her mother was deceased during her teenage years, as she is still young during the play. So during her formative years, there are motherly neglect towards her, thus unpreparing her for her eventual bout with Hamlet when he decided to act crazy.

Thus she must already have some sort of mild PTSD, and the death of her father, elevated that PTSD on a higher level. thus leaving her to commit suicide, and her eventual drowning with no one around to witness it.

Okay this is just a hypothesis okay. I'm just saying.