Shark’d up a list of lawless resolutes For food and diet to some enterprise That hath a stomach in’t, which is no other, As it doth well appear unto our state, But to recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands So by his father lost; and this, I take it, Is the main motive of our preparations, The source of this our watch, and the chief head Of this post-haste and romage in the land.
yeah, i mean.
in hamlet (the play), the way this is NEVER emphasized, but the whole time this is going on in the background. hamlet doesn't CARE about it. he is literally faced with it in the 4th act and is still so self-involved that he has no idea that it's coming, and literally because he's basically dead by the time fortinbras does burst down his doors, he still doesn't care. that's the destruction of his entire country, not just himself and his family. and he never cares about it. i mean, in a simple narrative way, this is where that novel i read in 2020 succeeds, by shifting the narrative away from hamlet, we get that there is a serious, background conflict. and one that claudius cares about. but DOES claudius care about it. hamlet doesn't, where old hamlet did, obviously, but claudius wasn't any more prepared for fortinbras at his doorstep than hamlet was.
