Blog Post #14: Hamlet Blog 2 - Revenge

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Taken from the perspective of Act 2, Scene 2

"Rise". 

I recently came upon this game, and I must say, it does strike me as familiar. I believe it is because it reminds me much of what I have been through these past few days - my father's ghost, his accusation against King Claudius...

Connor Kenway, the protagonist of the game, has a motive much like mine. It is a goal of revenge against those who destroyed his family and ripped him from what he loved. Because of this, he begins a journey to take down those enemies - the Templars. In doing so, he is subsequently caught up in the American Revolution and may ultimately decide its outcome. 

Oh, how uncanny the resemblance! My father to Connor's family, King Claudius to Charles Lee, two "bloody, bawdy" villains (2.2.541). Just as "Denmark's a prison" to me, Connor's enemies are a prison to him (2.2.230). We have both "known true freedom", a freedom that has been "taken away" from us (Ubisoft).

This is exactly why I must know more; I must "have grounds" to work with, definitive evidence that what King Claudius has done is true and what I am doing is right (2.2.565-566), so I may escape this prison. Just like Connor begins to doubt his reasons behind his revenge, I am wary of my own, for that ghost "may be the devil" (2.2.561). As Connor's mentor, Achilles said, I must take care that through my actions "to save [this] world", this kingdom, and perhaps even myself, I do not "destroy it" (Ubisoft). 

Sometimes I still feel helpless under the prying eyes of my mother, the king, and of course, Polonius. Is it not obvious to them that I can see them trying to "find out...the cause of this defect" (2.2.104-105)? Ha! Such a defect it is! No more a defect than the hood that covers Connor's face. Yet they persist at it, and all I can do is "fall a-cursing like a very drab,/A scullion!" (2.2.549-550). But I am alone in this matter. "Prompted to my revenge", alone to understand the cause of my father's death, "because no one else will" (2.2.547) (Ubisoft). I can only hope that what I am doing is justice.

Therefore I will find the truth. I will rise.