A maddening conclusion

RDHS was a live on December 12, at 8:30, as two teams came to meet to argue if Hamlet was indeed crazy. Both sides fought hard, but it seemed the negative team (Kelsey, Mellissa, and Jessica Barton) won through sheer endurance as Mary from the affirmative team (Mackaliea, Elida, and Mary) gave up nearing the conclusion of the debate. It started off with strong arguments and logical fallacies flying back and firth but soon changed to a shouting match with no points. In the end the team of Kelsey, Mellissa and Jessica won the argument, with the agreement of all present.

The good arguments were only spoken at the outset, the rest it seemed were just repeats. The affirmative’s made strong points stating that throughout Hamlet, Hamlet clearly showed signs of having many forms of medically madness. The negatives quickly disproved this stating that it was all induced due to grieve from his father dying, thus making Hamlet acting mad. They made clear that it wasn’t madness but just strong emotions in play.

Over all the rebuttals were weak and never really disproved what the opposing side stated, they just stated again and again their own views.

After the free-for-all the entire debate went downhill. The amusing factor is that the crowd did the wave, causing a stir for the debaters. The only voice to be heard the whole time was Mary shouting something, we’re just not quite sure what. When talking to on spectator he stated that Mary “turned into an ogre, was very loud and I fought to throw something”. Not a pretty sight.

Rules were broken, annoyance filled the air and sometimes points were made. People gave up (Mary), as they just didn’t care anymore. Funny to witness, a pain to stay. Although better then some debates it still left some things to be worked on. But one thing is for sure, the negative team won, and Hamlet is declared sane.