I dont want to achieve immortality through my work, i want to achieve it through not dying.

In this reading we started to see Hamlet come into the book more and more after we saw him for the first time in the second reading. In this reading more elements show up such as intertextuality like i said, as well as others such as humor and metafiction. In this reading there were deep talks between Rosencrantz and Guilderstern about life and death and such things. 

After this reading i noticed more differences between this book and Hamlet and i think this has to do with more postmodern elements coming out in this reading. The time period begins to come out in the reading which is important because towards the beginning it was very similar to Hamlet. This is actually a big compliment towards Stoppard’s writing style, i think.

~ by captainrossbarnett on May 1, 2009.