Essay | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

The scene opens up in a Junkyard with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern under a pile of broken carriages and other riding equipment. They have been severely beaten and left for dead.

The junk-keep attempts to prod some emotion out of Guildenstern not even seeing Rosencrantz. Are you awake, sir? Are you ok? Sir! Guildenstern rolls over with a dazed and confused look on his face.

Guildenstern: What? Where am I? What am I doing here? Where is Rosencrantz"

Junk-keep: Who? There is no one else, Not that I see though.

Guildenstern gets up and searches frantically for his counterpart, Rosencrantz, and finds him lifeless under a large wooden wheel.

Guildenstern: Oh no! Get up Rosencrantz!!

Junk-keep: He might have gone, I have seen them look better than this before...and those guys were dead.

Guildenstern: No no no, He can't be dead. He thinks for a little while. What...
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