"John Tucker, there's only one guy out there for me, but you are not him." John Tucker Must Die is a movie about a popular high school hottie who is known for two things: his amazing skills in scoring baskets and scoring women. John is dating three different girls at the same time, his trick was to treat them differently in public than he did in private to make them feel special and secretive. The whole scheme blows up in his face when they all find out that he is lying. They all come together to plot taking down and essentially ruining John Tucker socially and emotionally. The girls are driven mad by their hate of John and their lives become centered around destroying John Tucker.
My father asked me whether Hamlet was "Mad for thy love?" (line 85) implying he may be emotionally unstable as John Tucker had been, and a woman was at fault for it. Sir Polonius later explained that
"This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself
And leads the will to desperate undertakings
As oft as any passion under heaven
That does afflict our natures." (102-106)
Love can drive men crazy. Hamlet was so desperate for my affection just as John had been for the three ladies, love was a distraction of sorts from dealing with the deeper issues such as the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother to his uncle.
"I feared he did but trifle
And meant to wreck thee." (112-113)
Worried that Hamlets intentions were not entirely pure, my father forbid me from speaking to Hamlet. My father was entirely correct, Sir Hamlet did not have pure intentions for me, neither did John, he wanted one thing, and one thing only.
"You’ve probably heard about the “change” that’s come over Hamlet—that’s the only word for it, since inside and out he’s different from what he was before." (3-7)
From beginning to end, John and Hamlet both underwent a dramatic change in character, John cleaned up his act, while Hamlet only got worse.
"Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;
And he, repelled—a short tale to make—
Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,
Into the madness wherein now he raves
And all we mourn for." (136-142)
When all the girls started to avoid John because they found out his secret, he became confused, lonely, lost his confidence, and was desperate. Very similar to when I was banned from speaking to or seeing Hamlet, everyone thought that the loss of my was the cause of his sudden delusion.
Although both John Tucker and Hamlet were unlucky in love, John managed to turn his future around and change his attitude, only time will tell if Hamlet is able to do the same.
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