Lies+&+Deceit_Characters

Playlist By David McDowell
 * Hamlet Characters**

Song #1: **Paranoid** Artist: **Black Sabbath**

// Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind // // people think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time // // All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy // // Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify // // - Ozzy Osbourne //

In act 3 scene 1 you can see parallelism between the Hamlet and “Paranoid” by Black Sabbath. Hamlet criticizes women for being the reason that men behave like monsters even when women use makeup to appear more attractive. We can also see that women are a leading factor that added to his madness, just like in this song.


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Song #2: **3 A.M.** Artist: **Eminem**

[|//It's 3 a.m. in the morning,//] [|//put my key in the door//] [|//Bodies laying all over the floor and//] [|//I don't remember how they got there//] [|//But I guess I must'a killed 'em, killed 'em//] // - Eminem //

In act 3 scene 3 we see that Hamlet is plotting to kill Claudius. He plans this in order to avenge his father’s death but does not realize that he has gone mad with revenge. Eminem also has a verse that relates to Laertes:

// All he wants is to kill you in front of an audience // // While everybody is watching in the party applauding it  // // Here I sit while I'm caught up in deep, thought again  // // Contemplating my next plot again  //

Although I’m making a playlist for Hamlet’s character, I wanted to add this in because it draws parallelism when Laertes plots to kill Hamlet during the play infront of the audience. Even if that plan didn’t work, he makes his next “plot” to poison a glass of wine for Hamlet to drink.


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Song #3: **Sympathy** Artist: **Goo Goo Dolls**

// And stranger than your sympathy // // Take these things, so I don't feel  // // I'm killing myself from the inside out  // // And now my head's been filled with doubt  // // - Goo Goo Dolls //

In act 3 scene 4 Hamlet is hiding behind curtains and accidentally kills Polonius, thinking it was Claudius. Hamlet let his madness get to his head and quickly regrets his action. “I will bestow him, and will answer well. The death I gave him” (3.4.176). These lyrics relate to what Hamlet is feeling at the time of the Polonius’s death.


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Song #4: **When You’re Gone** Artist: **Avril Lavigne**

// When you're gone // // The pieces of my heart are missing you  // // When you're gone  // // The face I came to know is missing too  // // When you're gone  // // The words I need to hear to always get me through the day  // // And make it OK  // // I miss you  // // - Avril Lavigne //

In act 1 scene 5, Hamlet is notified by the ghost of his father that he has been murdered by his uncle. “O my prophetic soul” (1.5.41.) is what Hamlet said when the ghost of his father told him that Claudius was the murderer. This song describes the emotions that Hamlet is feeling at the time and I think if there were MP3’s or iPod’s in this era, Hamlet would connect to this song.


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Song #5: **What Do You Want From Me** Artist: **Pink Floyd**

// As you look around this room tonight // // Settle in your seat and dim the lights  // // Do you want my blood, do you want my tears  // // What do you want  // // What do you want from me  // // Should I sing until I can't sing any more  // // Play these strings until my fingers are raw  // // You're so hard to please  // // What do you want from me  // // - Pink Floyd //

This song also relates to act 1 scene 5. When the ghost of his father appears to tell Hamlet to seek revenge, Hamlet is confused on what to do. Ghost: “//So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear.”// Hamlet: //“What?”// (1.5.8-9) This shows the confusion from hamlet and is where the lyrics relate to what Hamlet is feeling “//Do you want my blood, do you want my tears/ What do you want /What do you want from me”//.


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Song #6: **Boulevard of Broken Dreams** Artist: **Greenday**

// I walk a lonely road // // The only one that I have ever known  // // Don't know where it goes  // // But it's home to me and I walk alone  // //- Greenday//

Throughout the play, Hamlet isolates himself from everyone and is basically “walking a lonely road”. This is because he does not want anybody down this road with him. The “road” that I am referring to is his “crazy” or “mad man” road as he plots to kill Claudius. In act 1 scene 5 Hamlet makes Horatio and Marcellus “Swear by his sword” (1.5.163) that they will not reveal that they have seen the ghost of Hamlets father. This is because he does not want to drag his friends down with him.

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