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Hamlet Suffering From Oedipus Complex

The character of Hamlet is very complex and full of contradictions. He seems gentle, yet he acts cruelly towards the people who care about him the most. He is also careful to develop a strategy which will allow him a sense of retribution against Claudius for the murder of his father without being suspected, but then he kills Polonius in a wild fit of irrationality. Still, Hamlet possesses a very philosophical mind. He is always processing his own experiences and struggling with the feelings that these experiences provoke. The fact that he is intelligent and able to take action cannot be denied. He proves not only his intelligence by contemplating big issues within his soliloquies, but also his ability to operate by the quick, but rare, decisions he makes all throughout the novel. On the surface, it is awfully difficult to understand why Hamlet is the way he is. It could be that Hamlet is simply a victim in all the corruption which surrounds him or maybe he is just extremely sinister......


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