Hamlet’s Relationships

Question 1

Freud’s Psychoanalytical Criticism

Answer 1

‘unconscious wish to supplant is father and lie with his mother. “

Question 2

Ernest Jones (1949), on Ophelia’s Death

Answer 2

“ After Ophelia’s death, the remorse behind his exaggerated behaviour springs, not so much from grief at Ophelia’s death, as from his distress at his bad conscience that has killed his love; he acts the lover he fain would have been. “