Hamlet Act 2

In Act II, something that stood out to me was Hamlet’s soliloquy on lines 563-622. In the movie, the actor displays Hamlet’s range of excitement profusely. In the Kenneth Branagh’s, Hamlet, understanding of how Hamlet started off calm, and then rose to rage, then calmed back down to a conclusion. The soliloquy didn’t so much catch my attention, but the way the movie portrayed this section made me go back to the book and re-read it. In my opinion, I believe Kenneth Branagh did a good job expressing Shakespeare’s idea. The areas where Kenneth Branagh expresses his rage is exactly where Shakespeare adds exclamation marks. You see in the book where Hamlet gets excited, as portrayed in the movie, and also where he calms down. The punctuation is key in figuring how Shakespeare wanted this section to be read.