Benjamin,

Great read.

Reminded me of this question I got at least once a year.

"Sir, why do you love Hamlet so much?"

"Because throughout the play, he earns its title. Hamlet knows that he must be a good playwright, a good actor and a good director. His struggle is for self-definition: how to be a good son, a good Dane, a good friend and a good lover and yet remain true to himself."

"Just like you in Grade 11, you're hungry for definition too, but if you allow others to define you, there will always be a stranger in the throneroom of your soul."

Highest praise I ever got for those words?

One of my students put 'Throneroom of the Soul' on his grad jacket.