My answer to our question about last week's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is really not much different from what was discussed in class. I agree that it is very much a show about Drama and perspective. It is a symbolic reflection, a self aware, or perhaps far from a self aware experience. We see these contradictions between the performers and Rosencrants and Guildenstern. In my opinion, the two main characters (oddly enough side characters in the original Hamlet) are like parts of the subconscious competing within a single mind. And on our other hand we have the actors of which seem eerily aware of their situation. Somehow the performers have broken the binds of their so called "roles" through a hyperawareness of their own story. Even when Rosencrants and Guildenstern are put to their deaths they cannot seem to beak free of their own minds. To me this emulates how the subconscious cannot control itself, or be any more than exactly what it is, the subconscious. On a larger scale it could be satire on certain kinds of individuals. Several times in the play, either Rosencrants, or Guildenstern stop to contemplate the meaning of death. They construct the illusion for themselves that they are being profound and they catch themselves up in all of the wrong details. But, perhaps they cannot help it, and that could be precisely what the play means in demonstrating the lives of two minor characters. They are throwaway souls, and in that case have no choice of escape. The notion could be seen as a sort of way to break the fourth wall, which, Shakespeare often did in his plays.