#horatio hamlet

[edettethegreat]

similarities between tma and hamlet

-- catalyst of the story is the death of someone and the person filling their job position

-- conflict at least partially revolves around confirming the suspicions over who killed the person who died before the story began

-- protagonist is an academic of sorts

-- protagonist goes on a paranoia spiral

--themes of not knowing who to trust, suspect everyone, search for answers

-- HEAVY themes of self sacrifice

-- ghosts

-- intervention/ intervention-esque confrontations where people ask the protagonist to stop harassing everyone around them

-- nearly all of the protagonist's friends end up dead by the end

-- antagonist is very interested in a crown of some sort

-- story ends with protagonist successfully killing antagonist, but in a way where he sacrifices himself right in front of his boyfriend/'best friend'

--boyfriend/'best friend' reacts to that with 'well then I'll gladly die too!'

--protagonist would rather that boyfriend didn't die.

--sad sad tragic tragic cry forever ending

[ask-horatio-the-poet]

Alas, my good friends! My Dear Hamlet introduced me to this "web-site" here—I see there are many people on it!

I am Horatio—very close and trusted friend to The Prince of Denmark, and hopefully a poet or playwright someday. I do love telling stories.

I long to speak with the assembly—do place letters in my "virtual" mailbox. I shall answer to the best of mine ability doth allow.

I shall go now, as Hamlet calls for me—he requested for me to meet him in his chambers so we may converse. I shall answer you all when I return—Adieu!

[propheticjester]

Can't stop thinking about how it's Horatio and not Hamlet who is in both the first and last scene. This is the story of Hamlet, but somehow the play begins and ends with Horatio, because even though it's about Hamlet, it's not actually his story. These are the things Horatio has witnessed - the things we as the audience have witnessed alongside him - and he is going to "speak to the yet unknowing world [h]ow these things came about" (Hamlet, 5.2.364-365). We start with Horatio witnessing the appearance of the ghost and we end with him surrounded by the dead, vowing to tell their stories.

[dsfalkweon]

Hey actually do you think we can try and get this to my old Hamlet mutuals? I don't remember their usernames but back when I had my account rurus-kadoo, there were I think four of them and they were sooooo abnormal about Horatio I loved them to pieces and now I don't know how to find them so can we reblog this until they find it? It's probably not going to happen but it's worth a shot I think

If you are a frequent Hamlet/Horatio poster and recognize the username rurus-kadoo it is I I am she I am looking for thee please return to my dash pretty please

[helen-cooper-fan-account]

Y’all ever think about how Horatio would eventually graduate from Wittenberg without Hamlet cos I think about that a lot

[vampirenoibat]

that twitter meme huh

[anyxs-art-gallery]

Younger generation Hamlet character designs!

[alwri-tes]

Okay so I read "Greetings From Sunny L.A." by Courtney Summers for the first time yesterday, and I'm having a lot of haunted thoughts about it, but the one realization I had (that I can't get over) is the fact that West McCray is now the Horatio of the Sadie extended universe

Explanation/summary/context under the cut for all 3 people who might care about this. Enjoy me connecting Hamlet parallels to a random thriller book I was obsessed with in 2018 (spoilers for Sadie and "Greetings from Sunny L.A.")

Okay, so, Sadie is a realistic fiction thriller novel released in 2018. It follows the titular Sadie, a 19 year old who has fled her home to go on a quest to hunt down the man who murdered her younger sister. The book also follows West McCray, a journalist who was hired to try and find Sadie after her surviving family reported her missing. West starts a podcast to document his search for Sadie, and it goes viral.

In 2022, the author of Sadie, Courtney Summers, published another book, I'm The Girl.

I'm The Girl is considered to be a "spiritual successor" to Sadie, and details of the plot confirm that the book takes place in the same universe- a character mentions that the podcast based off of the search for Sadie was made into a feature film. It's a fun little Easter egg for returning readers, but otherwise has no real bearing on the plot. Both books can be easily read as standalones.

Anyway, Courtney Summers later released "Greetings from Sunny L.A" a bonus short story/epilogue that bridges the gap between Sadie and I'm the Girl. It's from West McCray's perspective, and details what his life (and the lives of Sadie's family members) were like in the years after the events of Sadie. It also explains why West made the decision to allow his podcast to be made into a movie.

West never found Sadie. In fact, no one ever did. In the years after she went missing and a viral podcast was made about her, there had been a few alleged sightings, but none were ever conclusive. Not even a body showed up.

As West chafed under the guilt of never having found Sadie, he also struggled with the way his podcast about her went viral. West and Sadie's surviving family members were approached about a movie deal, but her family always refused them. West struggled to manage the stress of it all, and his marriage and reputation started to struggle.

Then, Sadie's mother and grandmother passed away. West, alone and tired, was left the sole heir to Sadie's story. He was the only survivor of the events of Sadie (as far as we know). So, he allowed her story to be made into a movie, because he believed that the director could do her story justice, and he hoped that the film would keep her memory alive. And maybe, just maybe, it could help find her, after all these years.

Once I finished reading this (and got over my initial sadness) my Shakespeare-obsessed dumbass was like "wait this is just like Horatio from Hamlet."

Really, it's very sad. You get the sense that West was by no means eager to surrender the film rights, and he did it more out of desperation than anything else. I don't think what he did was right, but I understand why he finally caved.