So I just finished Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and to my surprise, I really liked it! It was so well but and the way Stoppard arranged the play was brilliant. I love how it goes along with Hamlet but it is still so different.
My favorite things about the play were the characters. Ros and Guil can be viewed as one character. The fact that they are so lost kind of makes them seem stupid, but they really aren't. They're actually a lot like regular people. Because, if you think about it, we're all in some way lost. I have no idea what could happen in a year, in a week, or even tomorrow for that matter. So maybe we aren't as lost as Ros and Guil, but I think this is what Stoppard was trying to get at it. Is life just one big stage and we are all actors? Is God the playwright, or just the audience? Or are we all in control of our own destiny? Can we be in charge of what happens tomorrow? These are a lot of hard questions that I have found myself asking about life, and that is why I liked this play so much. It forced me to rethink these questions and in a way, Stoppard almost forces readers to reconnect with God by writing about a lack of God. That is basically the idea of the absurdist movement. I find this very interesting and I would love to read more books like this!
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