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Conversation In Hamlet

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many a places in order to reflect the utter confusion that assails Rosencrantz and Guildenstern regarding their life and the way it is being charted. Guil: Well... Ros : Quite... Guil: Well, well. Ros: Quite; quite. (Nods with spurious confidence) . Seek him out. (Pause). Etcetera. Guil: Quite. Ros: Well. The atmosphere of confusion and uncertainty that characterizes the universe of Stoppard 's courtiers finds expression in misunderstandings. play contains instances of such ambiguity which leads to a total breakdown of the conversation. Guil: We 're on our way to England - we 're taking Hamlet there. Ros: What for? Guil: What for? Where have you been? Ros: When? (Pause). We won 't know what to do when we get there. Guil: We take him to the king. Ros: Will he be there? Guil: No - the king of England. The following passage reflects the same misunderstanding and the solution that the Player envisages is to break down the language to its basic constituents. Player: The old man thinks he 's in love with his daughter. Ros (appalled): Good God! We are out of ourdepth here. Player: No, no, no - he hasn 't got a daughter- the old man thinks he 's in love with his daughter. Ros: The old man is? Player: Hamlet, in love with the old man 'sdaughter, the old man thinks. “toppad doest …show more content…

It is a play with in a play and written by Tom Stoppard. By Comparing Shakespeare 's Hamlet with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead we came to see how Stoppard transformed Shakespeare 's Hamlet into a absurd tragic comedy play and how Stoppard 's play focuses on this relationship between fictive death, real mortality, and the question of uncertainty. We also came to know that Shakespeare 's Play Hemlet has many moments of rich humor and play is serious and tragic while Stoppard 's treatment of the Shakespearean story is distinctly

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