2. Various Historical links
An inspiration from the Danish Historian, Saxo
Grammaticus's work "Historia Danica".
An inspiration from the French story Histoire de
Hameau, by Francois de Belleforest
A remake of English playwright Thomas Kyd's play
"Ur-Hamlet".
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3. The women in the play are depicted as feeble, less
intelligent,dependent and easily accusative.
After the death of the Danish King, when Gertrude has
to remarry Claudius, she is accussed of being
desparate and greedy.
Ophelia is shown as a weak woman, who is hanging like
a a pendulum in between her father and lover's
conflict.
4. What Hamlet has for her mother is pure aggression.
There are some conditions and postulates to Freud's Oedipus Complex Theory:
It occurs in a child's developmental stage.
The child is in a state of rivalry with the parent of the same gender.
The Freudian Oedipus Complex
