THE HAMLET GAMES

Sierra Longmire
Haley Moses
Evie Davis
Hannah Than Win
Mrs. Wilson
English IV
13 December 2015

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The Hamlet Games

Based on the play by

William Shakespeare

Based on the movie by Nina Jacobson

John Kilik
Written and Produced by Haley Moses
Sierra Longmire
Evie Davis
Hannah Than Win
Cast
Katniss (Evie Davis)
Snow (Hannah Than Win)
Peeta (Haley Moses)
Gale (Sierra Longmire)
Game Makers (voice-over)
Primrose

Hamlet
Claudius
Ophelia
Gertrude
Narrator
Horatio
Script

Start off by introducing actors and their roles

Snow:
District of Denmark, welcome to 72nd annual Hamlet Games.
Only the strongest will survive.
When you think of power; think of me, Claudius.
Thou will have no time to grieve over losses or deaths.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
Katniss:
*under her breath to Gale*
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?
a beast, no more (4.4.33-35).
Gale:
Katniss, why does thou have such anger towards President Snow?
Katniss:
His power is misplaced. The power is not rightfully his.
He took it with greed and envy- sins and loath.
No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds
(4.7.125-126).
I will have no bounds.

Gale:
I beg of thee to not
I have lost already my beloved,
and now this bloody game is means to lose another
*Scene turns to President Snow picking a name out of a jar*
President Snow:
And the chosen one from district 12 is Primrose
*Hamlet Sr. (the ghost) says faintly in background*
King Hamlet:
Who wants to avenge my death and prove their worth, power, and masculinity?
*Katniss looks frightened and runs through the crowd*
Katniss: *screams*
He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother...
bedamned to let this canker of our nature come in further evil (5.2.64-70).
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!
*Gale shouts to Katniss as she is being dragged away*
Gale: Katniss they only want to see a good show, do not fall into the traps of emotion and get
yourself killed. Revenge is not the answer
*Katniss replies to herself as she is being dragged*
Katniss: I cannot come to terms with myself. I need to kill Snow to avenge the death my great
father but I cannot overcome to emotions that travel with me everyday since the day of his death.
Why thus I must possess these emotional qualities?
END SCENE TO KATNISS BEING IN FRONT OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THE
GAME
*Katniss shows off her skills*
Game Makers: In Hamlet by William Shakespeare, it may appear that Hamlet's primary power
struggle is to avenge his fathers death and restore order and health to the body of Denmark.
However, this obvious struggle is fueled by Hamlet's internal conflict -- negotiating the
masculine and feminine sides of his personality. According to Stratos E. Constantinidis, the
function of revenge is a symbolic restitution of patriarchal order, but is also the restitution of
Hamlets male identity: to be able to kill is to prove oneself as a man, to take back an honor lost
with the death of ones father (145).

Katniss
From my sheath, I draw my arrows
and aim at the hearts of those responsible for the stolen power
Hear what I say
The time will come when I avenge the deaths
of those previously forced into this blasphemous state
I hereby challenge Snow to a game for the gods
Snow:
Her talents are mighty and her determination is great,
But her feminist qualities will be her own death. [She] must know, [her] father lost a father,/that
father lost, lost his But to persever tis unmanly grief (1.2.89-90).
Narrator (Game Makers):
Within the government, President Snow takes advantage of the power that is given to him based
upon his leadership roles, which is parallel to Claudius taking advantage of Gertrudes grief and
marrying her quickly after her husbands death. Katniss takes it upon herself to overcome what
she believes is unjust within the districts to level the power just as Hamlet tries to overcome the
power and deceit of his uncle who becomes the new king even though the throne rightfully
belongs to Hamlet. The urge that Katniss gets to take a stand to fight for her district is the similar
to the masculinity that Hamlet experiences when he decides to avenge his fathers death.
*Action of The Hunger Games*
*Peeta and Katniss left alive as final two*
Peeta:
Katniss I am in love with you and I will not let you die. I will eat these poison berries as a token
of my love, and an end to my life to keep you alive.
Katniss:
Peeta, no!!! We will both act as though to eat them, commit suicide and have no winner.
Exposing what mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death and danger dare (4.4.51). The
capital will never allow it, Peeta.
My thought be bloody, or be nothing worth! (4.4.66).
Flashback scene:
Katniss:
To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-To sleep (3.1.56-65)

*starts to act to eat berries and Peeta actually does*
*Peeta collapses*
Peeta:
Katniss, before I pass I want to say, If thou wilt marry, marry a fool; (3.1.131).You can do this
Katniss, dont be the fool.
Katniss:
If I will not avenge the death of only my father, let me avenge the death of my father and my
now lost love, Peeta. But courage does not lie within me; lend me your strength.
Sir Hamlet:
Katniss, Revenge his foul and most unnatural murther (1.5.25). I need not remind you again.
Do this for me. For for power, for love and to prove yourself.
Game Makers:
Death is a common theme within Hamlet and The Hunger Games. Peeta who is represented of
Ophelia, in troubling times, commits suicide. In Hamlet, the topic of suicide was quite
controversial because it is seen as a sin. The unnatural deaths described include death by the
hand of another and suicide. Just as Ophelia unexpectedly met her end, so did Peeta. His demise,
too, remains unclear if the guilt of the games had driven him to take his own life or if his
instincts took over from the sweet taste of berries. Food is also a common theme between the two
because in The Hunger Games, the food provided by the government corresponds with death and
decay, the berries that Peeta eats, while in Hamlet, food is a symbol to represent the decay that is
figuratively occurring within the power struggles in the government and literal decay of human
lives. When the opportunity of avenging the death of his father is handed to Hamlet, a feminine
side is revealed. Due to [his] femininity, [Hamlet] maintains a tender heart toward his people.
Unlike [other enemies] who are determined to avenge their father's, [Hamlet] is [hesitant] to kill
anyone, including [his] enemies (Canadian Social Science 4). Hamlet cowards on gaining the
head of the throne and at first rejects the idea of murder which is seen as weak, a feminine
quality during the time. In comparison, in The Hunger Games, Katniss expresses her care for
others in her district.
Gale:
Katniss, how do you fair?
Katniss:
Flee this place if you wish not to witness the act of revenge. So art thou to revenge, when thou
shalt hear. (1.5.8).
*Mumbles to self: I must remember fathers words: Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul
contrive
Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven (1.5.85-86).
*Katniss sneakily runs toward Snow when his back is turned

*Katniss stabs Snow

Snow:
O yet defend me, friends. I am but hurt (5.2.288).
*Katniss takes the leftover berries that she did not eat and shoves them in Snows mouth*
Snow:
My very own niece. My daughter.
Katniss:
My work is done. A dead man can no longer have undeserving power. But what shall I do now
that I have lost everyone in my life
*Eats last berry*
*END SCENE*