Blog Assignment #2

Harry Tasker is a secret agent working for an organization called the Omega Sector, which is an anit-terrorist group that works for the government.  Their main motto is “The last line of defense”, meaning that this organization is all that stands between the United States and open war.  Because Harry is an agent that works for this organization he has access to all sorts of spying equipment and when he discovers that his wife is talking to another man, someone she doesn’t mention to Harry, he fears the worst and begins using that equipment to spy on her. 

I feel that I can identify with what Harry is going through because I too feel that sometimes it’s necessary to “spy” on those close to us in order to get a better picture of what’s going on.  Because of this I have to agree with what my husband when he said when we were talking with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.  He said, “I entreat you both that, being of so young days brought up with him and sith so neighbored to his youth and havior, that you vouchsafe your rest here in our court some little time on to pleasures, and to gather so much as from occasion you may glean…that, opened, lies within our remedy.” (2.2.10-18).  While this use of trickery doesn’t exactly sit right with me I see no other way of getting into Hamlet’s head and this might be our only chance of getting to the source of his madness. 

After I had resigned myself to the fact that this trickery was necessary I became a little nervous when I thought of how Claudius and I would get Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to actually agree to spy on Hamlet.  While we are the King and Queen of Denmark and we hold the power to make them perform this task for us, as Rosencrantz reminded us earlier today when he said, “Both your Majesties might, by the sovereign power you have of us, put your dread pleasures more into command than to entreaty.” (2.2.27-30) we both felt that it would be better if Rosencrantz and Guildenstern agreed to do so willingly.  Thankfully, Guildenstern kept us from having to force the issue when he said, “But we both obey, and here give ourselves up in the full bent to lay our service freely in the full bent to lay our service freely at your feet, to be commanded.” (2.2.31-34).  This response pleased me greatly and I could tell it did the same for my dear Claudius.  Now, as Claudius mention before, we might learn what’s troubling Hamlet and why “th’ exterior nor the inward man resembles that it was.” (2.2.6-7).

I truly hope that Hamlet does not discover our plan and that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are able to determine what has him acting so differently lately.  I have full faith that they will do their job well because they know how much this will affect their country.  Also, I made sure that they knew that they’d be rewarded when I said, “Your visitation shall receive such thanks as fits a king’s remembrance.” (2.2.25-26). 

 

Your Loving Queen,

 

Gertrude