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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

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story of hamlet that the whole thing has started with

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Incest Rate started because claudius kills his brother presumably to

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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

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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

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there's kind of some sexual longing there and then also

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has teo avenge his father right But in the process

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of avenging his father polonius ends up getting himself killed

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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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