Hamlet Essay: Freud and Hamlet
Freud believed that Hamlet did not kill Claudius the first time
he saw him because Hamlet saw himself as the enemy. This sounds like a
solid reason to me. Who am I to say that it is not? However, I also
find Samuel Taylor Coleridge's reasoning very interesting. He
believed that Hamlet did not kill Claudius the first time because he
was praying. This sounds almost too easy, although very legitimate.
Now, I am not one to say which interpretation is right, or even ponder if
either is right; however, they both come credible critics. So, who is
right and who is wrong--that is the question? No? Maybe both are right
to an extent. We do not actually know what Shakespeare was feeling when
writing Hamlet.
This brings me to the point Chris Early made previously. I, like
Chris, do not believe that works should only be investigated on the
surface, but it is difficult to uncover every meaning of every aspect of
every work. Is there always something bigger and more meaningful than
the original words? Sometimes I would say yes, and sometimes no. So,
this leads me to my next question: how does one know if the words mean
something bigger or not? I believe that there is no actual way to
know if something has hidden meaning or not; therefore, almost
everything is scrutinized as if it does. I am not trying to make
silly excuses; I am being completely serious. No one, even the great
critics, know what is symbolic and what is not; therefore everything is
considered symbolic in the beginning, causing some sort of symbolism to
be uncovered. Whether this symbolism is correct, no one will actually
know. As Chris touched on, who knows what Shakespeare was thinking
when writing Hamlet? We can only make educated guesses at what
Hamlet was thinking when he withdrew from killing Claudius the first time.
These educated guesses come from what the reader thinks, along with
what critics have interpreted and written.
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Even though Hamlet is a prince, he has little control over the course of his life. In that time many things were decided for the princes and princesses such as their education and even who they married. This was more or less the normal way of life for a child of the monarch. But in the case of Hamlet, any of the control he thought he had, fell away with the murder of his father. Having his father, the king, be killed by his own brother, sent Hamlet into a state of feeling helpless and out of control. Cooped up in a palace with no real outlet, he tries to control at least one aspect of his life. Hamlet deliberately toys with Ophelia's emotions in order to feel in control of something since he cannot control the situation with Claudius.
It is clear Hamlet can be interpreted from a multitude of perspectives on numerous levels. I cannot quite grasp Mr. Bloom's contention that this is a work of near biblical importance nor can I accept his allusions to Jesus or the Buddha. "Hamlet remains apart; something transcendent about him places him more aptly with the biblical King David, or with even more exalted scriptural figures."(Bloom, 384). My immediate response is that when Mr. Bloom shuffles off this mortal coil, I don't believe Billy Shakespeare will be waiting with a pint of ale.
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Hamlet is sane, not insane. He is putting on an act making people think that he is really insane when he is really just acting. Hamlet was ordered to avenge his fathers death by his father's spirit. The spirit told Hamlet that how he died. The spirit said that he was sleepong in his garden when the uncle came and poured poison into his ear. The spirit told Hamlet to avenge his death by killing his uncle. Hamlet wanted to prove that his uncle really killed his father. His uncle married his mother shortly after the murder of Hamlets father. I think Hamlet is crying inside beacuse he suspects what really happened.
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