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[revolter]

Hamlet thought too much.

[ that's the way she chooses to open this. Musing aloud. ]

He thought and he talked and he talked, and he has the most beautiful - soliloquies, I read they are called. He talks about all the things he thinks about but he doesn't do anything and in the end nobody of them does anything but Laertes. It's a sad story but I don't think it has to be. If Hamlet did something instead of all the thinking and the soliloquies maybe it would have had a better end.

[ the things six years old think about these days. ]

He could change it from a tragedy to just...a story. You don't have to make it a tragedy. It can be a sad story at the beginning and some things aren't fair but it doesn't have to be this way.

[ a beat. ]

I'm sorry. I don't really know how to say it, but when something is bad, like brothers or daddies or aunts and principals and evil kings like Claudius, then they're bad but it doesn't have to end badly too. At least that's what I think. I heard this story about a girl who had a wonderful life but then it all changed and became terrible but she changed her story and made it better. I think I like hers more.

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/written

[savethedarkness]

[what a peculiar subject for one so young. M can't help but smile anyway as she writes back]

The Bard never quite did believe in a happy medium. Either everyone was happy, or no one was.

Dictated

[cyan_maid]

[Thank goodness Jane is back to normal! Now she sounds like herself and won't startle the people she knows.]

I like it when people try to change things, too. But sometimes, people don't know how to change them.

I didn't think you read Shakespeare, Matilda.

dictated

[eat_me_beat_me]

I like to think that you always have some control in how your story turns out.

written;

[storiestotell]

No one deserves a bad ending.

[songsandstories]

[Oh, to believe in stories still.]

In stories, they end when good wins. But good does not always win. Good people still die. Men and kings are not honorable. Sometimes the only thing one can do is survive.

[kid_apocalypse]

[You're speaking to his soul here, tiny philosopher. Evan's whole life has been about defying the odds, and making of his life what he wants of it.]

Me too, Matilda. I think...everyone's got that chance. To change their story, and make it into what they want. I don't think everyone knows it though. They get so...involved in things, they don't think they can change the ending if they want to.

[revolter]

I think that's sad. If people read that everyone are happy it might not seem very believable. But everyone being sad is not very believable either.

Dictated

[revolter]

Maybe then they can ask for help. From friends or teachers. Some of my friends helped me change things.

[ though she had made brave attempts even before that. ]

I never read Hamlet before, but I read A Midsummer Night's Dream, which I liked better.

dictated

[revolter]

I do too.

If we accept that we have no control at all...I think it will make me sad to think like that. In the books some of the characters have hopes and then they try and sometimes it does work.

written;

[revolter]

That is true. So if someone thinks the ending might be bad, they should try and change it, shouldn't they?

[revolter]

But you have to try. Even...to survive, if the story is very bad. To try and survive, that's trying too. And perhaps to try and change it.

[revolter]

Maybe if they read about it books. Not Hamlet but maybe other stories where people changed their stories. Like Great Expectations. Pip tried to change his story and he succeeded and even Magwitch tried, even if he was a prisoner.

[songsandstories]

And what if you know you can never have what you once did? That all you loved is destroyed and gone?

Dictated

[cyan_maid]

But what do you do if even they don't know?

Really? I don't think I read that one. I definitely read Romeo and Juliet in high school, though.

written;

[storiestotell]

I should think so. Especially so if it means helping someone else too.

[assassino]

Leave the child be, Alayne. She is too young to be thinking of such bitter ends, even if they are true at times.

[savethedarkness]

It wasn't meant to be believable, it was just meant as theatre, entertainment. People went to see his plays because they were so extreme. It did them good to either see people worse off than themselves, or believe everyone could be happy, even for a few hours.

dictated forever

[eat_me_beat_me]

exactly! Thinking that we have no control is the same thing as giving up! If you give up how can you ever expect to get out of whatever you're in?

[songsandstories]

I know those younger than her who have suffered worse fates. She's seems a smart child, perhaps she has the answer. [More than what Sansa has for believing in stories.]

[assassino]

This one sounds like she's little more than a babe, even if she speaks like an old woman.

[songsandstories]

You discredit her for her age, and then mock her for what wisdom she does have. Which is it?

[assassino]

I am not mocking her, I am just saying that a smart child is still a child –– too young for bitter things.

[songsandstories]

You speak for her like you know her. Bitter things can befall anyone despite their age.

[assassino]

[He doesn't know a thing about this girl, but his girlfriend likes kids so he's trying to care more about kids for brownie points... What a loser.]

I know this girl still believes in happy endings. Let her.

[revolter]

[ she hums in thought. ]

Because they know the truth already so...they don't want to see it? In a play?