Hamlet Critics

Question	Answer
Roman Selden	REFLECTIVE DISPOSITION: he is INCLINED to THOUGHT rather than ACTION
Freud	A CRISIS occur in his life which bring the REPRESSED DESIRES to the SURFACE
Ernest Jones	IDENTIFIES WITH CLAUDIUS He DESISTS because in KILLING CLAUDIUS he would be KILLING HIMSELF
Avi Erlich	The REAL CONFLICT is between his IDEALISED IMAGE of his father and the ACTUAL IMPOTENCE and BADNESS of his father
William Tydeman	CHALLENGE this NOTION that Shakespeare's SOLE PREOCCUPATION is with HAMLET'S INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY HAMLET cannot SWEEP TO REVENGE The CONVENTIONS do not PERMIT HIM
TS Elliot (VIA TYDEMAN)	An ARTISTIC FAILURE as situations did not JUSTIFY the EMOTIONAL RESPONSE they called forth
Joe Sutcliffe	CLOSER IN SPIRIT to his father than he EVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED
Alexander Crawford	(of shakespeare) They are all STUDIES in the SPIRITUAL LIFE of man If Hamlet were truly mad, moral only to avoid INSANITY and it NEEDS NO DRAMA to teach that.
Harold C. Goddard	EVERYONE admits seeing SOMETHING OF THEMSELVES in the Prince of Denmark

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