LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Neurotic behavior
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Changes in emotional states
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Slips of the tongue
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Detailed explanation-1: -Freud proposes that Hamlet is unable to make up his mind to kill Claudius owing to his own Oedipus Complex the repressed but continuing presence in the adult’s unconscious, of the male infant’s desire to possess his mother and do away with his rival, the father.
Detailed explanation-2: -By using Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalytic, the researcher analyzes the personality of Hamlet as the major character. Hamlet has a hesitation in taking revenge to the murderer of his father. His superego is bigger than his id and ego.
Detailed explanation-3: -† Jones, A Psycho-analytic Study of Hamlet (London: The International Psycho-analytic P, 1922), 50-59. Following Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones (1879-1958) wrote a classical psychoanalysis of Hamlet as an illustration of the Oedipus complex, the unconscious desire to possess the parent of the child’s same sex.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet is often perceived as a philosophical character. Some of the most prominent philosophical theories in Hamlet are relativism, existentialism, and scepticism. Hamlet expresses a relativist idea when he says to Rosencrantz: “there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” (2.2. 268-270).