To the Editor,

To keep, or not to keep Shakespeare in the school curriculum, that is the question. Well its the
question that Professor John Hattie thinks he is able to challenge.

While Shakespeare has certainly made a generous contribution to the everyday persons word bank,
are his works still relevant in high school classrooms today?

BUT OF COURSE!

Although there are times in senior English when you want to jump over the desk and strangle the
monotonous and unenthused Hamlet For A Day, the stage write is still relevant to society and can
still teach the us a few important lessons inside and out of the classroom.

Hamlet is essentially a story of the corrupting nature of revenge and the anarchy induced by violence
(wouldnt be Shakespeare without some juicy revenge). Ever since that poor, old, murdered daddy
ghost pops up in the first act to encourage Hamlet to become an avenger, everyone except Horatio
has been killed. The story of Hamlet is one big warning for the temptation of anger and the
corruption that it brings. Although todays society is perhaps not as explicit as this depiction of
uncontrolled and thoughtless revenge, it reminds us all that violence is not the answer. The issue of
violence is all too prevalent within our towns and cities obviously the entropy cannot be controlled
however, Hamlet serves as a warning that nothing good comes from anger

Hamlet Junior is part of a broken family where relationships are tested

Mum problem- Dead dad- Untrusted friends- Kills everyone

Soliloquy