Ros and Guil are definitely not dead!

Like I have said before, this story is extremely odd. However, I keep laughing at the characters because they are just so clueless. I think that the strangest aspect of Act 2 has been all of the references to existentialism. It just seems so depressing and pathetic to think of ours lives meaning nothing when there is no one to tell us we exist. On page 63, when the player says that the "single assumption which makes our existence viable" is "that somebody is watching." It just seems so sad to think that people do not really exist without someone verifying that existence. Then, when Rosencrantz talks about the box idea, he is pretty much saying that without actions or relationships, it is like we are laying in a box waiting to die. That just seems so strange that we mean nothing without other people. We are nobody until we know someone else.
Also, I think it is really interesting that some Christian ideas are brought up in this act. Rosencrantz's idea of wanting a "beginning, middle, and end" to a story is the same as Christianity. We all want a beginning, middle, and end. Also, Rosencrantz says that "we have no control. None at all..." (71). This is another Christian idea. We as God's created people have no control. He is the only one with control over our lives. However, in the case of Ros and Guil, they have no control over what goes on in the play. They just follow what was already written for them. The strangest part about this is that they seem to know what to do without being told. This is shown when they just know that they are going to take Hamlet to England, but the king has not given them orders. They just know because it is part of the play. So although this story seems like the most confusing, strange thing I have ever read, it is really interesting to see all the different ideas and concepts shown by Ros and Guil.