Hamlet Analysis: Act 3 Scene 4

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Themes Discussed:
(For a more detailed discussion of THEMES in Hamlet, see • Hamlet: Theme Analysi... )
T1 Wasteland, Hero's Journey 07:12
T11 Projection 07:12
T9 Mind-body duality 07:12, 22:48
T10 Oedipal Complex: can't get the image of mother's sexuality out of his head 07:12
T10 Oedipal complex: over-attachment to the mother poisons the young man's notion to love/sex 13:44
T2 Parental Interference: Haunting of the child 19:46
T8 Appearance vs Reality 20:28
T11 Projection, hallucination, delusion: dramatic/mythic/symbolic concretization of inner abstract conflict: the father haunts the son 20:28
T7 Realpolitik, Machiavellianism: Claudius+Hamlet counterparts/parallels 28:23
Characters Discussed:
(For a more detailed discussion of CHARACTER in Hamlet, see: • Hamlet: Character Anal... ​​​​​​​)
C1 Hamlet: passive-aggressive, sensitive cowardly, failed hero, wrong man for the job 02:02
C1 Hamlet: puritanical, sexually repressed, moralist, idealist, naive, failed hero (fails to grow up) 07:12, 13:44, 17:49, 22:48, 26:20
C1 Hamlet: frustrated ambitions 19:09
C1 Hamlet: psychotic? 20:28
C1 Hamlet: sensitive 22:48
C1 Hamlet: Realpolitik, Machiavellian, Claudius' counterpart/parallel 28:23
C4 Gertrude enigma, stupid? naive? cunning? pragmatic? ambitious? 04:11, 16:30
C3 King Hamlet: Overbearing? 19:46
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