Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

This scene begins with Laertes and Ophelia, both children of Polonius, talking about Hamlet. Ophelia is revealed to be the lover of Hamlet and is being warned of Hamlet’s sincerity. Ophelia becomes defensive about Hamlet and tries to prove to her brother that Hamlet can be trusted and that his love for her is real.…

The scene begins with King Claudius talking about his brother who has recently died and was the previous king. Claudius has since married Gertrude, the late King’s widow. He is trying to tell Hamlet, his nephew and the late King’s son, not to be sad about his fathers death. He also speaks to the son…

This scene begins with the entrance of two guards named Barnardo and Francisco at a change of watch. Both guards call out, in panic, to an unknown character. Soon after, they calm down and their superior Horatio and another sentinel Marcellus enter the scene. They inform him about the apparition, resembling their recently-dead King, that…

The wide spread anticipation spiralled around the huge hall. It built up the already clenching tension in your muscles that your pre-stretching didn’t seem to help whatsoever. The only thing that relaxed you even slightly, was the fact that you knew for certain that you were not the only one experiencing the anxiety. The room…

Head down he strolled down the street observing only the scattered cracks on the pavement. He could not glance up. He could not see it. One glance would be all it would take. Once glance up and he would see what he had done; the destruction he had caused. One man, one day and all…

He left the class. He walked to the stairs. He fell down the stairs. He broke his arm. He went to the hospital. He passed out. He woke up in a jungle. Slowly, he left the class. Gloomily, he walked to the stairs. Brutily, he fell down the stairs. Shockingly, he broke his arm. Hurriedly,…

DeathNote by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata is a 12 volume, 108 chapter manga series that was published in the Shonen Jump magazine in Japan. It became an extremely popular and successful series despite its short length and unorthodox storyline. Shonen Jump is the most well known manga publishing magazine in Japan consisting of an…

The poem Poppies was wriiten by Jane Weir who is an award winning poet born in 1963 with English and Italian decent. The poem is set on armistice sunday which is a day used to mark the end of world war 1. During the time Poppies was written their was a lot of conflict in…

Edward Estlin Cummings was born in 1894 in the United States and grew up in a highly religious and well achieving family where his dad was a professor of Harvard University where Cummings later studied. It was not long before he became interested in the modern type of poetry. His poems became very iconic as…

Social Media is the new sensation that has grabbed the attention of young people all over the world. It teaches them all of the key values that a young person should adhere to, for instance a key example is how it teaches young people to care about their appearance. In fact there is a complex…