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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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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
- 00:15
story of hamlet that the whole thing has started with
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Incest Rate started because claudius kills his brother presumably to
- 00:23
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
- 00:39
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
- 00:47
there's kind of some sexual longing there and then also
- 00:50
has teo avenge his father right But in the process
- 00:53
of avenging his father polonius ends up getting himself killed
- 00:57
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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