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Hamlet Close Reading Analysis

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Wow. Your response really helped me have a better understanding of Freud's psychoanalytic interpretation of Hamlet and I couldn't agree more with how important "close reading" is while working through Shakespeare's dense and difficult text. It's interesting to note on Freud's interpretation of the play as a dream and that his argument for Hamlet's delay in killing Claudius is because of a repressed Oedipus complex; he his actions are restrained because he has a subconscious desire to take the place of his father and lie with his mother. What I believe to be the main cause of the delay revolves around Shakespeare's intentional method of conveying a message to his audience. He wanted his audience to think and experience the moral issue of revenge.

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