Instruction:
Look at the Hamlet’s first soliloquy, “That this too too solid fresh…”
Read it in your native language. (which is Japanese for me.)
Write an essay on the ideas that get captured and/or lost in translation.
Please write a minimum of 2 pages according to the instruction.
I have read Hamlet in my own language (Japanese) and already found few words that I got lost in translation.
For example, “His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!” – I don’t know if this “canon” is used as in Church or in a Christian way. Since in Japanese, only Shinto or Buddhism exists, this word “canon” is translated as in “rule/regulation” because in Japan, we don’t know that it is not allowed to commit on a suicide in a certain religion like Christianity. So when translated, it shows “rule/regulation” in Japanese.
Also, “How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable” – In Japanese, stale and flat is almost the same meaning and it is usually used to describe the food. But in this case, it is used to describe Hamlets’ depression.
Lastly, “With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” – this is also something that it is translated in a weird way since it is not a crime in a religion for us in Japan to get married to a brother’s wife.
Like this, please summarize and explain more in specific detail and include what I just wrote since my professor want to know where I got lost in translation when I read Hamlet in Japanese.
I also personality think that by reading Hamlet’s first soliloquy in Japanese, I thought I should have read Hamlet by also understanding the religion of Christianity. Because before without understanding the rules and regulations of Christianity, I did not have so much sympathy but AFTER, the more I understand the Christianity, the more I was able to understand the material and also Hamlet’s feeling. Since Hamlet’s idea shows Christianity which is completely opposite from our religion which is Shinto and Buddhist, there was hard time for me to relate myself with Hamlet.
One more thing, when Japanese read this type of soliloquy, we tend to see this as “Hamlet speaking to himself”. However, when I was reading his soliloquy, I felt like it felt like as if “Hamlet was not talking to himself but to the God”. (also because he uses a lot of ?s)So I also found this interesting as well.
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