Facebook and Hamlet: a suitable option.

After our Friday session, I started to wander as Facebook is one of the most famous applications on the web that has ever existed, what would have done Hamlet if this site had existed in those times? Would have used it? We know that people from around the world are log in at least three hours per day. However, this application was designed to be in contact with people and show how we really are, but is this purpose fulfill?

To my mind, Hamlet would have used Facebook to communicate with people. As we have seen in last semesters, Woolf also mentioned the concept of "mask" in her plays. In Mrs. Dalloway, for instance, was all about appearances. One was treated as one was. That is why I do concise that Hamlet, as a way of escape of his reality, Facebook or other kind of social media would have been useful at times of meeting people.

This sites are not so far as we think. It just gives us the power of being someone that we want to be. For most people, it creates a "cooler me"  or an "attractive guy who likes taking photos", for example. And for other, these applications are sites to be aware of my surrounding. This is why, Hamlet and Ophelia would have been users of Facebook for to reasons:
1. They would have created a fake profile in which that would have showed the perfect people that society impose on them.
2. They would have met other kinds of couples whose would have faced the same problems as them.

In this post, my idea es to show that Facebook and being someone else could have fixed in the concept of wearing mask: playing roles as characters and not as real people. This is what Facebook is trying to lead us to do mainly. But of course, it is up to use the use that we give to it.

Sources:

Rosenberg, M. (1992) The masks of Hamlet. Newark: University of Delaware Press: London.

Speer, S. (2012) To be or not to be Hamlet. Dominion Post, The p. A8.