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Hamlet: Freudian Interpretation of Hamlet (Oedipus Complex)
Hamlet: Freudian Interpretation of Hamlet (Oedipus Complex)
Hamlet's inability to suppress his father's death is the main idea of this play. Readers and critics of this tragedy usually adapt to the idea of an occurrence of the Oedipus Complex between Hamlet and his mother. Sigmund Freud's can be quoted with his theory of the complex of being "we humans are ruled "deep down" by animalistic sexual drives."Proof of this theory can be proven through Hamlet written by William Shakespeare, Shakespearean Criticism written by John F. Andrews, The Psychology of Shakespeare by J. Bucknell and Understanding Hamlet written by Don Nardo.
Hamlet is confused over the fact that his mother married his own uncle so quickly after his father's death. Even though he does not suspect anything of it in relation to his father's untimely death, he is in a state of shock. As John...
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