Hamlet vs. Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet

Abstract

Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet is ultimately an emanation of Hamlet. Most meta-characters, at least in the Western tradition, absorbed in the process of coming-into-consciousness and ensnared by the anxieties that attend on the awareness of mortality, trace their lineage back to Shakespeare's play; Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet simply discloses this relationship. But by divesting themselves of Hamlet's equanimity in the face of mortality and by replacing Shakespeare's heightened language with a howl of grief, the characters in Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet refuse to concede to Hamlet the final word.