Hamlet
This blog is based on Hamlet and This task was assigned by Dilip Barad sir. Marginalized Lives, Systemic Power: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern from Hamlet to Stoppard Introduction Shakespeare’s Hamlet orchestrates a court in which kings, counsellors, and courtiers move like pieces on a board; yet it’s the “minor” figures Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who most sharply reveal how political power treats human beings as instruments. Their brief presence and cold disposal dramatize a political logic that reduces persons to function: useful when absorbing information or buffering danger, expendable when danger must be contained. Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead takes that marginality as its moral and philosophical ground: the two are no longer merely instruments; they are subjects who question their instrumentality and thereby expose the cruelty and absurdity of systems that render lives meaningless. 1. Marginalization in Hamlet: Ros...
