Is T.S. Eliot's criticism too harsh, or is it along the correct lines of what many people believe? Shakespeare's masterpiece, Hamlet, was extremely dry and contained sickly humor that many people found hard to understand. It was proved to myself that this reading was not interesting and now it should be proven to whom it may concern, why Hamlet was not one of Shakespeare's best writings.
First of all, why in the world did Shakespeare drag this play along like a young girl with a raggedy doll that not even the world could pry from her hands. There was no need for Shakespeare to carry this play out like he did. The play is extremely puzzling and skips around too many different parts making it difficult for the reader to interpret
Third, it was a little bit harsh for T.S. Eliot to say that this piece of work was an artistic failure. It was a failure, but not artistically. Shakespeare failed in getting every reader to understand his whole point throughout the story. He failed to keep the reader truly entertained so that they would want to pick the book up again. Shakespeare did not accomplish what he was trying to do, in explaining to others and myself the significance of his time period and the need for his insanity. This was truly a very twisted and distorted story that needed some foreboded changes.
I would still recommend this piece of writing to all of the high school juniors and seniors out there because it is considered to be a masterpiece. I am positive that Shak
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