Hamlet Blog Post #2

 "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."-Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson)

After reluctantly agreeing to let his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), go to France with her best friend, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is horrified to hear that she is kidnapped by an Albanian gang whose specialty is prostitution rings. Bryan rushes to France to save her with only 96 hours to go before he'll never find her again. As a former CIA agent, he has all the skills necessary to rescue her -if he can only find her. He goes all around Paris and outside Paris looking for his daughter and hunting down the man who took her. He stops at nothing and is willing to kill anybody who gets in his way, which he does.
Revenge. It is awful isn't it but still very common in our lives. I guess little things overset people in different ways and can lead us to an extreme, like killing. In my life right now there is a lot of revenge going on between my crazy boyfriend, Hamlet, ever since he saw that Ghost who told him that Claudius, his uncle, killed his father. Hamlet said to the Ghost, "Speak; I am bound to hear." He meant that it is his duty to listen to the spirit of his father. The Ghost replies that it is also his duty to take revenge: "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear"(1.5.7). A moment later, the Ghost repeated the message, but more strongly. He said that if Hamlet ever loved his father, he will "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (1.5.25). Hamlet promised to prove his love and do his duty. He told the Ghost to tell the story of the murder, and the revenge will follow: "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love, / May sweep to my revenge" (1.5.29-31).I am in the middle of this confused on how to help him or if he loves me. I know he has bigger things to handle but I feel like maybe he would feel better if I returned his tokens of love. It is weird because Claudius and my father are trying to use me to spy on my love, Hamlet and figure out why he has those crazy scary eyes. To be honest I am a little fightened by him but I will make sure to try to show him my love for him. Hopefully it works out and he doesn't kill anyone just yet like Bryan Mills in Taken. Ophelia