#2

#2



On December 15th at Rockland district High School a debate took place between to two teams to argue if Gertrude had betrayed bother her husband and son. The debate lasted approximately one hour in length. The affirmative debaters were Adam Young, Mathew Brown and Stuart Gendron and the opposing side was Jon Khatib, Tyler Keith and Alex van der Mout. The judges of the debate, Stephanie Wilson, Jayme Bedell, and Megan Marshall, had a fun set up for attacking the opposing team by making them literally attack each other, with lightsabers.

The debate began with Adam stating a simple definition of “betrayal” and demonstrated that Gertrude fit ever description within the definition. And the rest of the affirmative team added more and more events in which Gertrude had shown the different points in which she had shown a neglect towards Hamlet and his problems. The negative side countered with numerous back up using the ghost in the play.

There was numerous points during the debate in which the audience was amused and broke out in laugher due to the comments made by Stuart and Jon throughout the debate. Stuart had made statements like, “Maybe she’s not the queen of Denmark, and she’s just the queen of Whoreville?”, “I think the ghost is full of shit!”, and he made a bold statement to start a lightsaber fight with Jon by calling his mother a prostitute.
Sadly the affirmative had lost the debate by a hair, but Stuart’s comments will be remembered by many of the audience members.