This reading was really confusing to me! It picks up where Hamlet has his “to be or not to be” speach. From there that is where I got confused. So far R &G kinda have their own confusing language with eachother. They complete eachothers sentances and talk in a way that I would imagine really fast. G asks R three very strange questions about what Hamlet is doing. They are is he walking “on his hands? Stark naked? Selling toffee apples?”. WHAT?? Why would Hamlet be walking on his hands, naked, or selling toffee apples? These are such random things to ask! You would think after reading this that G was the crazy one and not Hamlet, but maybe because we are suppose to believe that Hamlet is crazy now he is trying to make the reader think that. Or maybe he himself thinks that Hamlet is crazy so he is coming up with the most obserd things that Hamlet could be doing, because in his mind those are things that crazy people would do.
Do R & G know they are going to die? Do they realise that the play is what is happening in their real life and that at some point they will maybe die? Well everyone dies but when their times comes, but could it be that this play has written out the way in which they will and now they are just living it out with no way of changing it. It’s funny because the movie Stranger then Fiction is all about this ordinary man named Harald Crick. He is an ordinary man who has made a specific time schedule for everyday that he follows very closely. But all of a sudden he starts hearing a voice in his head that is narrating his life. He tries to ignore it until it say that he is going to die soon. Harald tries to change his life and avoid death but no matter what he does it is exactly what the narator was going to say next. His death is inevitable and he can not avoid it even though he knows it is coming soon. This is just like R & G because they know their death is soon but there is no way of stopping it!
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Someone else asked the same question about the 3 questions, I forget who. My response though is that, does it really matter what he’s asking about? I’m not sure he really wants to know if Hamlet’s selling toffee apples. Guildenstern is getting at something else entirely.
Also, I think that R&G don’t KNOW they’re going to die. They just have a lot of very good evidence. it’s like they’re alive in the box, able to think “any minute now someone’s going to come along…” They’re heading toward death, but there’s always a chance they might escape it. Even if they don’t. There was a chance at least.
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