Hamlet is set in the middle ages in and around the royal
palace of Denmark. IF I could imagine Hamlet in an alternate setting it would
be set in Compton in the 1990s. Instead of their being a royal family there would
be a gang called the Shakers (get it Shakespeare J). There would be two
brothers (King Hamlet and Claudius) and one of them is the leader of the gang (King
Hamlet). The other brother must kill him to become the leader of the gang.
One scene from the play that I could imagine is Hamlets soliloquy
“to be or not to be.” I could see Hamlet sitting on the Martin Luther King
Memorial in Compton, contemplating his life struggles. I imagine it is at night
time when no one is around and Hamlet is just sitting by himself. The long
white bars could represent how he feels trapped like hes in a jail. Also the fact that he is a
height could represent how he is thinking about suicide.
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