<p>How badly do you think it would hurt me to have written my open question (FR3) on Hamlet? I admit it wasn't a perfect fit for the prompt, but I think I at least wrote a decent essay. Do you think I could still pull off a 6 or 7?</p>
<p>your choice of book doesn't really matter, it's the quality of writing that counts.</p>
<p>you still have to have good points in addition to good writing. </p>
<p>what did you use in hamlet? (as in, what were your points?)</p>
<p>I said that Hamlet was conforming in the sense that he was outwardly living and not showing his inner conflicts and related all those inner conflicts to themes and the development of the change in Hamlet (passion vs. reason, cowardice, honor, filial obligation) as he goes from too afraid to act to willing to face his destiny (in the final scene).</p>
<p>(A bit of a stretch I know...)</p>
<p>i think that's off base. he was indeed showing all of his inner conflicts - why do you think everyone thought he was going mad? because he was showing it! why else, for instance, would he have killed Polonius, the rat behind the arras? or, as another example, why would ros and guil have been summoned? also, what did you say he was questioning - the justness of Claudius's rule? how to overthrow Claudius? either way, he didn't outwardly conform or solely inwardly question: all of his puns, his plottings, the murder of gonzago play, his confiding in Horatio, etc. all demonstrate that he was actively demonstrating his inner conflict. furthermore, i would say that he more stumbled into the final scene (and, as you put it, faced his destiny) than willingly planned it.</p>