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Hamlet as the ghost that still haunts me [Eng/Esp]

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Published: 30 Jun 2026 โ€บ Updated: 30 Jun 2026Hamlet as the ghost that still haunts me [Eng/Esp]

Hamlet as the ghost that still haunts me [Eng/Esp]

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I remember the first time I read Hamlet. I was fifteen then, the book was a yellowed edition from the high school library, and I devoured it in a single weekend. I did not understand half of the soliloquies, but something about that Danish prince stuck in me like a poisoned sword, and I think perhaps it was his adolescent rage and his inability to fit into a world that smelled of rot. Reading Shakespeare back then was like peering over a cliff of vertigo and wonder.

Years have passed, and when I revisit Hamlet, I do so as one visits a friend who used to be intense and now turns out to be wise as well. The play remains that perfect machinery of pain and reflection, but now I see nuances that escaped me at fifteen. I no longer only see the young man who dialogues with a skull; I also see the man who asks himself whether it is worth going on when everything seems absurd.


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What fascinates me most, rereading it now, is the construction of doubt. Hamlet is not a hero of action, but of thought. Every decision is delayed, every word is weighed, and every ghost may or may not be real. In my adolescence that frustrated me; I wanted revenge, blood, swift justice. Today I am grateful for that delay, because in that "to be or not to be" there is not only melancholy, but a philosophical question about the human condition that transcends the centuries. Hamlet is all of us when we wake up at three in the morning wondering what we are doing here.

Shakespeare, moreover, offers no easy answers. Claudius is not a cardboard-cutout villain, Ophelia is not just the mad girlfriend, and Gertrude is not the frivolous mother. They all have their reasons, and I understood that later, when life taught me that people are rarely good or evil, but complex and contradictory.


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I read it in that Castilian of classic translations, which I underlined in pencil: "Something is rotten in Denmark," "The ends justify the means," "To be or not to be," those phrases that were already part of the air I breathed before I knew they came from there. Because Shakespeare taught us, before anything else, that language can be a battlefield and a refuge at the same time.


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Today I do not think of tragedy, but of resistance, and of how Hamlet keeps speaking, even when he knows he is going to die. Reading it now is less a novelty and more a reunion, but perhaps that is why it hurts more, because I recognize in its pages not only the adolescent I was, but the adult woman who still has not finished understanding the world.

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โœจ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’Œ๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ! โœจ
๐‘ฐ๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’š๐’†๐’•, ๐‘ฐโ€™๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’ ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’“๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’”๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“, ๐’‚ ๐’Ž๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“, ๐’‚ ๐’˜๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’Ž๐’†๐’“ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’โ€™๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’‡๐’–๐’ ๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’๐’‚๐’“.
๐‘จ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’”, 100% ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’-๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’† (๐’๐’ ๐‘จ๐‘ฐ).
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’Š.
๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’•? ๐‘ผ๐’‘๐’—๐’๐’•๐’†, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•, ๐’๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’Š๐’•๐’š! ๐Ÿ’›

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Hamlet como el fantasma que aรบn me persigue

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Recuerdo la primera vez que leรญ Hamlet. Entonces tenรญa quince aรฑos, el libro era una ediciรณn amarillenta de la biblioteca del preuniversitario y lo devorรฉ en un fin de semana. No entendรญa la mitad de los monรณlogos, pero algo en ese prรญncipe danรฉs se me clavรณ como una espada envenenada, y creo que tal vez fue su rabia adolescente y su incapacidad para encajar en un mundo que olรญa a podrido. Leer a Shakespeare entonces era como asomarse a un acantilado de vรฉrtigo y maravillas.

Han pasado aรฑos, y al reencontrarme con Hamlet lo hago como quien visita a un amigo que supo ser intenso y ahora resulta, ademรกs, sabio. La obra sigue siendo esa maquinaria perfecta de dolor y reflexiรณn, pero ahora veo matices que a los quince se me escapaban. Ya no solo veo al joven que dialoga con una calavera, sino que veo al hombre que se pregunta si vale la pena seguir adelante cuando todo parece absurdo.


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Lo que mรกs me fascina, releyรฉndolo ahora, es la construcciรณn de la duda. Hamlet no es un hรฉroe de acciรณn, sino de pensamiento. Cada decisiรณn se retrasa, cada palabra se sopesa y cada fantasma podrรญa ser o no ser real. En mi adolescencia eso me frustraba, querรญa venganza, sangre, justicia rรกpida. Hoy agradezco esa demora, porque en ese "ser o no ser" no hay solo melancolรญa, hay una pregunta filosรณfica sobre la condiciรณn humana que atraviesa los siglos. Hamlet somos todos cuando nos despertamos a las tres de la madrugada preguntรกndonos quรฉ hacemos aquรญ.

Shakespeare, ademรกs, no ofrece respuestas fรกciles. Ahรญ estรก Claudio, que no es un malvado de cartรณn piedra; Ofelia, que no es solo la novia loca; y Gertrudis, que no es la madre frรญvola. Todos tienen razones, y eso lo entendรญ despuรฉs, cuando la vida me enseรฑรณ que las personas rara vez son buenas o malas, sino complejas y contradictorias.


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Yo lo leรญa en ese castellano de traducciones clรกsicas que subrayaba con lรกpiz: "Hay algo podrido en Dinamarca", "Los fines justifican los medios", "Ser o no ser", esas frases que ya eran parte del aire que respiraba antes de saber que venรญan de ahรญ. Porque Shakespeare nos enseรฑรณ, antes que todo, que el lenguaje puede ser un campo de batalla y un refugio al mismo tiempo.


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Hoy no pienso en la tragedia, sino en la resistencia, y en cรณmo Hamlet sigue hablando, incluso cuando sabe que va a morir. Leerlo ahora es menos una novedad y mรกs un reencuentro, pero quizรกs por eso duele mรกs, porque reconozco en sus pรกginas no solo a aquella adolescente que fui, sino a la mujer adulta que aรบn no termina de entender el mundo.

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โœจ ยก๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’“ ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’“! โœจ
๐‘บ๐’Š ๐’‚รบ๐’ ๐’๐’ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’„๐’๐’๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”: ๐’”๐’๐’š ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’“รณ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’‚ ๐’š ๐’†๐’”๐’„๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’๐’“๐’‚ ๐’„๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’‚, ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’“๐’†, ๐’Ž๐’–๐’‹๐’†๐’“ ๐’š ๐’”๐’รฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’๐’“๐’‚ ๐’’๐’–๐’† ๐’†๐’๐’„๐’๐’๐’•๐’“รณ ๐’†๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’–๐’ ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’ ๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐’—๐’๐’๐’‚๐’“.
๐‘ฌ๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’•๐’ ๐’š ๐’๐’‚๐’” ๐’Š๐’Žรก๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’” ๐’”๐’๐’ ๐’…๐’† ๐’Ž๐’Š ๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’๐’“รญ๐’‚, 100% ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’๐’” (๐’”๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฐ๐‘จ).
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’Š๐’”๐’†รฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’ ๐’‘๐’๐’“ ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’Š.
ยฟ๐‘ป๐’† ๐’ˆ๐’–๐’”๐’•รณ ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’–๐’ƒ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’„๐’Šรณ๐’? ๐‘ฝ๐’๐’•๐’‚, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’‚ ๐’ ๐’“๐’†๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’–๐’†๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐’‚๐’š๐’–๐’…๐’‚๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’๐’†๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’“ ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’”. ๐Ÿ’›

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