Name:- Hitixa Goswami
Class :- M. A. SEM-1
Roll No:- 13
Beach :-2019-2021
Enrollment No:-2069108420200013
Subject :-Renaissance literature paper - 1
Assignment Topic :-character of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet
Email :- hitixagoswami28@gmail.com
Submitted to :- S.B.GARDI, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MKB UNIVERSITY BHAVNAGAR.
Word:-1,214
Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead in Hamlet.
Hamlet acts as a foil, or opposite, to Rosencrantz and guildenstern unlike his friends, Hamlet does not seem confused by the incomprehensibility of the world, nor does he have trouble making choices or decoding how to act. In fact, Hamlet has a lot of power within the play, as symbolizes by his lantern. He right the scene, then plunges the scene into darkness. His ability to control what viewers see signifies his immense power. He changes and affects people's lives in ways that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern cannot. For example, he kills Polonius, then disposes of the body. When Hamlet speaks, he frequently confuses other characters with riddles, another sign of his ability to have an effect on people. In this section of act 3.Hamlet reads the letter ordering his execution in England. But he reads in offstage and silently, masking whatever emotion he might be feeling about his friends betrayal. Unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet acts decisively Regardless of whatever he is actually insane, Hamlet’s cool, rational behaviour stands in contrast to the dopey.
Rosencrantz watches as Guildenstern flips coins. Each time a coin lands on heads, Rosencrantz gets to keep it. Guildenstern can hardly believe that Rosencrantz has a massed so many coins, but the coins keep coming up heads, he speculates that the two have entered and alternate universe, in which normal laws of probability.time, and chance do not apply. Unlike Guildenstern,Rosencrantz contentedly continues watching, not bothering to worry from why the coins keep landing heads up. Guildenstern speculates about possible reasons for the run of heads, including whether he is making his friend win as a way of subconsciously punishing himself, whether time has stopped, and whether a god of some kind has stepped in to influence their lives. He also begins in wonder inactions have stop to exist in relation to one another.
Guildenstern asks Rosencrantz to describe his earliest memory, but rosencrantz forgets the question almost immediately. Guildenstern suddenly remembered that the pair has been 'sent for' then be returns to his speculation about whether they have arrived somewhere in which the usual principles of the world do not apply, he uses logic to reassure himself that they have not emoted a great universe. But, still he reasons that the coins have landed heads almost a hundred dreams, a sure sign that the laws of probability have ceased working. He had music in the distance. As the Times his fingernails, Rosencrantz idly reminds Guildenstern that fingernails and facial hair continue to grow after a person has died.
Unlike that of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet’s fate is portrayed on stage. Those familiar with the play Hamlet knows that he disappears from the ship and goes back to Elsinore. Although readers do not witness his Travels or death, they do see his corpse in the final scene of the play. Shakespeare describes their deaths in Hamlet, and expects the readers of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead to recall the multiple death bloodbath that ends Hamlet.
Rosencrantz their mentions that he does not remember over the toe of the foot. These comments annoying Guildenstern, who asks Rosencrantz if he remembers anything from that morning. Rosencrantz recalls being woken by a stranger, an answer that calms Guildenstern. Rosencrantz says that they are on the road as a result of this stranger, who asked them to hurry up and go. But they do not know where they are going. Rosencrantz he was magic but decides that he has only imagined it. Guildenstern claim, that audience makes any event real. The tragedians enter.
It has orders for the king of England to kill Hamlet as soon as he reaches England. Hamlet writes a new letter requesting that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern be killed as soon as they reach England. He feels that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern brought their death upon themselves by doing whatever Claudius asked of them.
Their different responses to the coin tosses reflect the different personalities of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz blithely flips a coin, notes it as heads, and pockets it, over and over again, never questioning why the coins keep coming up heads. Guildenstern, in contrast, worries that the two have entered an alternate universe, since standard laws of probability dictate that a coin has an equal chance of coming up heads or tails. The more coins Rosencrantz wins, the more frightened Guildenstern gets. When Rosencrantz tires of the coin flipping, he begins cutting his fingernails and imagining what happens to the nails after death, foreshadowing the deaths in act 3. His actions demonstrate a relaxed attitude toward the world. He generally believes that everything is and will be okay, and he has no interest in worrying about unknowns. Guildenstern, however, shows a more complicated range of emotions and thought patterns. While Rosencrantz passively accepts the results of the coin flipping, Guildenstern actively struggle to fighre out what the result might mean. Unlike Rosencrantz, Guildenstern demonstrates a willingness to interpret and engage with the world around him.
Rosencrantz and guildenstern constantly make ridiculous comments, and the men are wholly unable to understand their specific circumstance or the larger forces at work in the world. For example they applaud as the tragedians gather around them, mistaking the tragedians evil intentions for a performance. As he leaves the stage, Guildenstern cannot remember if he is in fact Rosencrantz or Guildenstern. Earlier in the act, several men hide in one small barrel, a hiding spot that nobody questions or wonders about. Although these instance are meant to be funny, they also demonstrate the dark forces at work, in the play, as in life, things often happen for no real reason. People struggle to develop identities, to imbue their lives with meaning, and to do something significant,but, in the end, everybody does. We want a world in which the good are rewarded and the bad punished, but that world simply does not exist. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Deadpoints to horrific the world is chaotic, life is random, and the possibility of achieving success is slight.
Hamlet, Horatio and another character have a dialogue that dose not include here. While he wants to acknowledge his debet to shekspeare, he also wants to assert his creative power. In his play, he controls the characters, including when and how they speak and die. Stoppard lets hamlet die on stage, but he keeps the death of Rosencrantz let's Hamlet die on stage, but he keeps the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern away from his audience.
Conclusion :-when faced with the chaos of life, Rosencrantz decides that his personal purpose will be to seek pleasure for himself. That is not to say that Rosencrantz is advocating hedonism and fulfilling every desire however and whenever he wants that is rosencrantz says that even though the universe does not care about us, we should care about ourselves and strive to find happiness and personal fulfillment. It is the realities of life in a pointless universe.
