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Shakespeare's Hamlet 1 Act 1
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Crack open your copy of Hamlet, because it's time to discuss what happens during the course of Act I. Sadly, it has nothing to do with ham. 

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Shakespeare's Hamlet 2 The Setting
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What is the setting of Hamlet, and how does it contribute to the overall feel of the play?

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Shakespeare's Hamlet 3 To Thine Own Self
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What does the line "to thine own self be true" mean in the context of the play? And why do so many people use it as their senior yearbook quote? Pe...

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Shakespeare's Hamlet 16 Oedipus Complex 101 Views


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Sure, there's some weird Oedipal Complex stuff going on in Hamlet, but look on the bright side, Ham: you end the play with your eyeballs intact. 

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Thank you We sneak Shakespeare's hamlet edifices complexes Alas How

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do some of the characters edible complex shape the overarching

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story of hamlet that the whole thing has started with

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Incest Rate started because claudius kills his brother presumably to

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get at his wife free I'm in addition to the

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throne Hamlet seems uncomfortably invested in his mother and charities

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that whole kind of triangle so layer to use his

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father polonius and his sister ophelia They have this weird

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love triangle where clarity's throws himself on ophelia when she's

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in the grave and there's this implication that like maybe

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there's kind of some sexual longing there and then also

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has teo avenge his father right But in the process

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of avenging his father polonius ends up getting himself killed

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gets hamlet killed everyone gets killed So yeah so there

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is a sense that like ultimately incest dual desires responsible

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for all of the all of the motion of the

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play and that that incestuous desire is coming into conflict

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with this intense righteous desire to avenge family So on

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one level sons are all working hard or like struggling

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to do honor to their fathers And on another level

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they all seem to actually want to replace their Fathers

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and kill their fathers and be with the women in

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their families Girls How do some of the characters edible 00:01:34.068 --> [endTime] complex shape the overarching story of hamlet

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