Blog Post #17 Hamlet Act 5

Why dear lord, I cannot hang on to this grief any further. There is a justification for the bad to be buried in hell, but why must the good not prevail? My dear Lord Hamlet let your soul feel no more turmoil or confusion. “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince!” (5.2.323). As you are gone “the rest is silence,” (5.2.322). For your funeral, I must put a on a song to commemorate our friendship. This song is known as “Count on me” by Bruno Mars. Why, this is the only song he has sung about friendship, while the others simply dealt with young romance. If you are in heaven, I will reach out to touch your soul when you need a simple friend to comfort you. For I will remember, when you said “O God! Horatio, what a wounded name,” (5.2.309). For I am heavily wounded. This song is especially suitable as it makes references to a friend’s companionship to help guide a friend’s tormented soul.  “And let me speak to th’ yet unknowing world,” (5.2.344). I was the light that guided you through this unknown world of corruption. From King Claudius to your friend Rosencratz, none of them carried a single bit of loyalty towards you. They were simply involved in “carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,” (5.2.345) which cannot be explained, but only seen.  As the song implies, “You’ll always have my shoulder when you cry” (Mars), regardless of the burial of your body.   

I feel this song evokes the mood of hopelessness, but with a little hope. As ironic as my explanation, “Fall ‘n on th’inventors’ heads : all this can I Truly deliver,” (5.2.349-350). Meanwhile, the tone that Bruno Mars evokes is a feeling of hope even during the darkest of times. I feel that throughout our moments of friendship, we were stuck in very dark times with dark people bidding on your being. Why, in such moments when Claudius was gambling your life with Laertes. Simply Wretched! From here on out, “with sorrow I embrace my fortune,” (5.2.353). This song will represent that despite dark times, our moments were the only sense of light within the kingdom of Denmark. Your trust in me was your only lightness, I could feel very well. I was that friend who embraced your anger and spied against your very enemies. I will spread your legacy despite the capture of Denmark by Fortinbra’s. About Hamlet, the kingdom will say Horatio “his mouth whose voice will draw on more,” (5.2.356). Today, friends and enemies “bear, Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage,” (5.2.361). As the song finally says, I am the light to guide your boat. I will be there for you, Lord Hamlet, whether it is heaven or hell. When you are in need remember me. When people say there is no true friendship “never believe it,” (5.2.305).