Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Hamlet

Discussing the castration complex in class helped me to understand our readings for this class. It made me open to understand where these authors were coming from when they analyzed the readings for themselves. This process also makes you think about children in our everyday lives. They know if they act out they get attention but then realize they could get punished for it and soon start to seem closer to an adult figure to "redeem" themself.
Jones feels that Hamlet was stalling on killing his uncle. Jones brings up the point that Hamlet is a bit tardy. Instead of Hamlet killing Claudius as he was praying Hamlet felt it ironic and wrong to kill a man as he was praying. He thought in doing this he would send Claudius to Heaven than anyother place; Something that Hamlet did not want.

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