Polonius as a Fool
Animation of two scenes from Hamlet for 11th grade English class in Spring 2017.
- Animated two scenes from Shakespeare's Hamlet for 11th grade English class
- Focused on Polonius as a comic, foolish character rather than only a plot device
- Completed in Spring 2017
- Watch the animation
Project
Polonius as a Fool was a school animation project for 11th grade English. The assignment became a small adaptation exercise: take two scenes from Hamlet, choose a reading of the character, and turn that interpretation into a visual sequence.
I framed Polonius through the foolishness already present in the play. Instead of treating him only as exposition or court machinery, the animation leaned into timing, staging, and exaggerated behavior to make his self-importance and comic obliviousness visible.
Result
The final artifact was a short animated video, made for class and preserved as a snapshot of the kind of media projects I was doing in high school before my work became more engineering-heavy.