Talk:Hamlet/@comment-26976525-20150919020948

Shakespeare's play Hamlet, prince of Denmark

How is the episode "Goodnight, Sweet Grimm" like Hamlet? Well, this episode shows only one small scene from the play, Act 4, Scene 4.

 Hamlet and King Claudius are so busy with their personal feud over Gertrude that they don’t unite against their real enemy, the prince of Norway. Fortinbras wants safe passage for his army through Denmark in order to attack Poland. He says he is no threat to Denmark and will leave peaceful after attacking the Poles. Hamlet and Fortinbras meet on a plain in Denmark. A  sort of “no where in space.”



 Renard calls Nick into his office to tell him that his brother Prince Eric is in Portland. Nick sits in the captain’s office and listens to Eric talk to Renard on his phone, “nowhere in space.”  Like Hamlet, Nick, is blinded by his personal grudge and doesn’t see bigger picture, which is that Eric is a greater threat at the moment than Renard.

 Hamlet gives Fortinbras safe pass through Danish territory with his army. This proves to be a mistake. At the end of the play, Fortinbras’ army captures Elsinore castle. But there is no one left to lead Denmark against this invasion because Hamlet has been killed over this feud with Claudius. Fortinbras is the one who wins in the end.



 Nick focuses on finding the Baron and does not focus on the bigger question which is why is Prince Eric  in Portland? As a consequence the Baron “poisons” Nick with a puff, Eric takes Nick in a “dead trance” on his plane, leaving Portland without a Grimm.