We are always being told in class that every single person has a different perception of what we are reading. This is why several people are asked to read the same passages over and over, to know their personal perceptions. We often ask ourselves, how do we create these perceptions? And the answer is: it come from how you can relate to what’s happening, your life experiences. And for us (the people in class) experiences like he ones referred to in Hamlet are ones we lack and only hear from in TV and the news. But not everyone is like this.
We all know there are people out there who have taken the life of another human being, but we never think of them as redeeming people or even educated. These are the persons who can really relate to Hamlet’s situation and most of the characters situations. When this person read lines like:
O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t ,
A brother’s murder! Pray can I not
(Act 3 SC 3)
they read it as people who have felt this kind of guilt, people who have killed and know there is no going back but still wish with all their might that they could un-do the un-doable. Quite different from hearing a school girl, who’s closest experience to a murder is watching CSI in the comfort of her home, read it.
Personally, I was surprised when the radio interview began and they said that top security prisoners where performing Hamlet a Shakespeare play written in Elizabethan English. I thought there was no way they were pulling that of. But I was happily surprised when not only were they capable of doing a good performance but they also gave it a sentimental feeling that not even the best actors is capable of giving. A feeling given only by personal experience.
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