Maggie Szewczyk's Hamlet

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A senior Maggie Szewczyk is reading the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare with her English Class. One of the main characters Gertrude the queen of Denmark and Hamlets mother, go through the late King's death and her hasty marriage. Death is a main theme in the play and becomes a frequent event. Maggie assumes that Gertrude's marriage with her brother-in-law is due to protecting her status and her power, but has a special hidden feature. Maggie is caring like Gertrude from Hamlet. The experience that stands out to Maggie about caring was the moment she walks and passes the old homeless man with scruffy clothes. On the cold winter day she plans on hanging out with her friends. They decide to take a walk around the park, however Maggie stops …show more content…
Maggie has the love towards kids when she found out about her neighbor’s death she instantaneously offered any help. A single mom with four kids Maggie decides to care the youngest child and take the role to babysit him. With a few years she experiences his first word, first step and teaches him the alphabet. One day as he grows up,she swims with the little boy and hears the word “Mom” shockingly she asks him “Why did you say that?” his response melt her heart as he says “you are like my mom because my mom always works”. Maggie learns caring goes beyond taking care of family members and friends it comes from your …show more content…
These words like daggers enter in my ears./ No more, sweet Hamlet”(III.iv). As she experience her sons craziness and handles a death caused by Hamlet, she always looks at him as a son and adores him for the positives or negatives. Playing a caring character she defines everyone as family, so when Ophelia is buried down she never leaves her love toward Ophelia “.. I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; I thought thy bride- bed to have deck’d, sweet maid,/ And not have sre’d thy grave” (V.i). Throughout the play she is not criminally involve, but will care for the others as long as she keeps Hamlet by her side. Consequently death is apart of each individual, Maggie hopes one day she can risk her own life for an individual knowing she left for valuable reason. On the other hand Gertrude with holds lack of common sense, but her warming heart where its leads to drinking the poisonous drink since she did not want anyone to fight. Carrying is a trait where everyone holds even if there is no

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