Hamlet Post #2: Do you still wait for me, dream giver – just around the river bend?

In the movie, Pocahontas, Disney retells the true story of some of the first encounters between European settlers and American Indians.  While a white man, John Smith, and a native woman, Pocahontas, fall in love the relations between their respective groups start to sour.  The two groups send spies to watch on the couple, but the spies run into one another, resulting in a lethal encounter that nearly sparks a war between the tribe and the settlers.

O woe is me, for I am the copper-skinned girl!  A lovers true love broken by the mistrust of families.  For he hath even “made many tenders of his affection to me (1.2.100) Everything was so merry just a fortnight ago.  I loved my love because I knew my love loved me, but now it is all for nil!  For the dearest Hamlet has become completely mad, so “far gone, far gone.” (2.2.185)  For the light of heaven he was “pale as a shirt; his knees knocking each other.” (2.1.80) And who has forburdened this upon our bond?  O of course it is the Lord Polonius and the Lord King!  For they have poisoned our blood with mistrust.  They hath sent the men in hopes of espionage just as the settlers and savages did upon each other in the colony of Virginia.  The hath hired men “to gather so much from occasion [they] may glean, whether aught to [them] unknown, afflicts him thus.”  Save the murder and war between the two – for now.  But the true casualty is the tragic death of the love between me and dearest Hamlet.  I have to wonder if, like Pocahontas, “all my dreaming is at an end.”  For as the good lord told me “I did repel his letters and denied his access to me.” (2.1.105)  As yonder copper skinned girl did, I fell in love with a man who my father betold me was a “prince out of thy star” and they hath been trying to divide us ever since.(2.2.132)  O woe is me.  I shall never love again.