Adventure 2: "Hamlet"
Hamlet
(This Blog is meant to be read in a
British accent)
While Watson and I sat reading the
daily paper there was a knock at the door. It was Sara the time traveling
Journalist from Ms. Sasser’s English class. Sara along with her colleges was
headed to Denmark in the late 15th century to Elsinore Castle, the
home of King Hamlet. She asked for us to accompany her and her team so that we
could investigate the cloud of mystery surrounding the case that had been made
oh so popular in English literature. After
pondering briefly I decided to take the case as my newest Adventure.
We travailed to Denmark in the year
of 1589 A.D. where we were to find Sara’s friend William who had traveled in
time a few days before us to scout ahead and gather intelligence from the
locals before we arrived. We took very few luxuries from home with us on our
trip seeing that I planned to have the case solved within two or three days. Oh
how I was wrong, we ended up spending a total of six days in that reached place.
I now see where the term “Mid-Evil” was coined, for that place was the essence
of evil. We knew from reading the scripts of Hamlet the overall sequence of
events. Hamlet had seen his fathers “ghost” and was out to seek revenge on his
killer witch he believed was Claudius, his uncle. My thoughts were to follow the actions of Fortinbras
along with the two ambassadors from England at the end of the play. I hope to
prove my theory of how Fortinbras was behind it all in a massive plot to seize
the thrown of Hamlets homeland, Denmark.
I asked Watson to go with William
to the province where Olivia was sent so that he could investigate her death
while I spent time at the dulling ground where Hamlet and Laertes, Olivia’s
brother, fought. After five days Watson returned with William where they had
come to the conclusion that Olivia was forced into the river where she drowned.
Knowing that she could not swim her trusted bodyguards, which also happened to
be some of Fortinbras’ troops forced her to wash clothes in a deep river. This was
concurrent with eye witness reports and trace evidence that was still at the
scene.
After only the first day I had
rounded up the locals and interviewed them and they only confirmed my theory. They
said that the Ambassadors had actually been in the village for some time as if
they were waiting for some big event. Well as one could guess making my theory
stick, as if there was the World Court that charges could be brought. And to
add to the case I caught up with Fortinbras himself, I found it intriguing that
the resembled the late Hamlet the 1st in both height and weight. Also
I found in his personal possession white facial powder. I thought why would one
have such powder? Then using deductive reasoning that it was him, Fortinbras that
dressed as the late King Hamlet Ghost and appeared to the young Hamlet.
But as I said what could one do in such times. How
could this tretrious plot to overthrow this faction.

