He struggled with becoming the character and using the playwright's intent. ... With these plays, he took on the more challenging role of playing a leading character. ... He held stock in productions and shared in the earnings of the troupe. ... It was then an actors" job to bring the characters and script to life. ...
Four hundred years ago William Shakespeare wrote a play that presented characters how human beings truly are, neither all good nor all bad. ... The good and bad qualities of characters in Hamlet makes it harder for the audience to know who is right or who they want to see succeed. ... Hamlet then becomes a story immersed in the positive and negative qualities of character and the ambiguity of life. ... Hamlet You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. ... Hamlet isn't a villai...
Polonius is, in general, an untrusting, sneaky, scheming character and I am sure that Hamlet knew this about him. ... He snaps back by saying, "You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it, I loved you not." I think he is saying that he deceived her and that their old stock, or sins, cannot be inoculated, as in an inoculation where a virus is injected in order to build up immunity, with virtue as to make them forgivable. ...
To pursue his goal of fooling everyone into thinking he is mad, Hamlet replies, "You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. ... Hamlet is the first to realize the true character of Claudius and vows to make others see as well. ...
