1. The Differences between the scenes are the scenes are alot different, First in the 1996 version there are more lights and the 1968 version looks more like it would take place in shakespeares time. The similarities are the words. They both said the exact same thing.
2. I feel like the 1996 version is more effective because you can relate more to it because it takes place closer to a time we understand.
Hamlet
"QUEEN GERTRUDE
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,LAERTES
So fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes.
Drown'd! O, where?QUEEN GERTRUDE
There is a willow grows aslant a brook,LAERTES
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
Alas, then, she is drown'd?QUEEN GERTRUDE
Drown'd, drown'd.LAERTES
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet
It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will: when these are gone,
The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord:
I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,
But that this folly douts it.
Exit"
Hamlet Paraphrase
Queen: I have some bad new, and I know this comes at a bad time so close after Polonius death. Ophelia drowned.
Lartes: Drowned. Where?
Queen: There is a big willow tree that hangs over the stream. She made some really pretty garlands that she made with lots of pretty flowers. When she was hanging the garlands she fell into the stream. Her clothes spread out. She tried to struggle, but she couldn't swim and her clothes got soaking wet and heavy and she sunk to her muddy death.
Lartes: And then she drowned?
Queen: Drowned. She drowned.
Lartes: To much water, Oh poor speech in my mind but I won't say it will also die.
Exit
Ophelia's death is the best example of tragedy because she is the only truely innocent one in the whole play. She doesn't deceit people like Hamlet or poloneius shes just a victim of circumstance.
