{"id":1418584,"date":"2019-08-01T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1418584"},"modified":"2019-08-02T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:58:07","slug":"classic-novels-as-explained-by-the-characters-from-hamlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/classic-novels-as-explained-by-the-characters-from-hamlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Novels As Explained by the Characters from <i>Hamlet<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/8219hamletexplainedMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Has your English teacher ever asked you some nonsense along the lines of \u201cWhat is <em>Macbeth<\/em> about?\u201d and all you could come up with was something about a guy killing another guy to become the king? And they were like, \u201cNo, but what&#8217;s it <em>really<\/em> about?\u201d And you <em>really<\/em> had no idea? Yeah, we&#8217;ve all been there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BUT YOU DON&#8217;T HAVE TO BE AT A LOSS FOR WORDS ANY LONGER because the cast of <em>Hamlet<\/em> is here to help. After all, who knows about the obscure meanings behind literary classics better than literary characters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has your English teacher ever asked you some nonsense along the lines of \u201cWhat is Macbeth about?\u201d and all you could come up with was something about a guy killing another guy to become the   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,2335,524,7915,25017,248,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418584"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419007,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418584\/revisions\/1419007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}