Transparancy To Say less or to say more
Barker being a student of History brings forth the crucial problem of revelation of Shakespeare in Hamlet and also knows the revealing face of murkiness of the story in Elizabethan culture. He uses powerful imagery of mirror throughout the play, mirror which is made of glass questions the truth in Elsinore. This mirror reflects the image that can not be seen It allows to see without being seen. Here Hamlet affirms the impotence of words : “ I’m saying less”. (scene 7) And in not being in a position to speak or to speak less or tospeak more reminds s Shakespearean Hamlet’s dilemma of ‘ to be or not to be that is the question’. This very subtle trait of dilemma depicted in Hamlet is cleverly modified by Barker in portraying the character of Hamlet in this play. Not only Hamlet but others are also confused …show more content…
One may wonder that ‘saying’ is linked with dire consequences of truth as we find in Michel Foucault’s notion of Parrehsia. Can speaking true bring transparency? Here the question is -would this transparency serve to fight the secret by revelation or to eradicate impulses and secrets and not giving them more space to exist? Hamlet wants to get rid of lie, the lie world of Elsinore, even from the grip of Gertrude. He believes that transparency and decency go hand in hand. If decency is the rule, transparency is the way of monitoring. There is question of erasing and annihilating what is hidden or secret and not of expressing it because concealment no longer exists. This raises the question of the truth: whether transparency is a means of updating the truth or a way of compelling it because transparency needs certain opacity to exist, which refers to the problem of the ‘confessional glass’ described by Barker. It is made of a material which is transparent when viewed through. Transparency conceals the idea of clarity. Illusion of truth happens very quickly.
Barker being a student of History brings forth the crucial problem of revelation of Shakespeare in Hamlet and also knows the revealing face of murkiness of the story in Elizabethan culture. He uses powerful imagery of mirror throughout the play, mirror which is made of glass questions the truth in Elsinore. This mirror reflects the image that can not be seen It allows to see without being seen. Here Hamlet affirms the impotence of words : “ I’m saying less”. (scene 7) And in not being in a position to speak or to speak less or tospeak more reminds s Shakespearean Hamlet’s dilemma of ‘ to be or not to be that is the question’. This very subtle trait of dilemma depicted in Hamlet is cleverly modified by Barker in portraying the character of Hamlet in this play. Not only Hamlet but others are also confused …show more content…
One may wonder that ‘saying’ is linked with dire consequences of truth as we find in Michel Foucault’s notion of Parrehsia. Can speaking true bring transparency? Here the question is -would this transparency serve to fight the secret by revelation or to eradicate impulses and secrets and not giving them more space to exist? Hamlet wants to get rid of lie, the lie world of Elsinore, even from the grip of Gertrude. He believes that transparency and decency go hand in hand. If decency is the rule, transparency is the way of monitoring. There is question of erasing and annihilating what is hidden or secret and not of expressing it because concealment no longer exists. This raises the question of the truth: whether transparency is a means of updating the truth or a way of compelling it because transparency needs certain opacity to exist, which refers to the problem of the ‘confessional glass’ described by Barker. It is made of a material which is transparent when viewed through. Transparency conceals the idea of clarity. Illusion of truth happens very quickly.