Unlimited And Hamlet
Hamlet: the Illusory Mortal God
The greatest value of literature is as a mode to further reading and study to develop one’s own opinions and arguments. In Harold Bloom’s Hamlet: Poem Unlimited opinion of Hamlet, the character Hamlet unrealistically, philosophically battles with his own consciousness but surpasses the idea of modern consciousness. Hamlet is not an astral drama as viewed by Bloom but a tragedy by Shakespeare to be understood at a worldly value. Through character development Bloom also describes Hamlet as becoming prodigious and not as the revengeful prince of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. William Shakespeare depicts Hamlet as a thoughtful young man whereas Harold Bloom’s book Hamlet: Poem Unlimited responds to Hamlet by wrongly fantasizing …show more content…
Without proper evidence Bloom states, “We are self-conscious, but Hamlet is consciousness of something” criticizing that Hamlet is not just conscious but is above the average person in awareness (11). “For Hamlet, the play’s a thing,” in Bloom’s analysis, he is somehow self-aware in the play (11).
[Don’t condescend to the Prince of Denmark: he is more intelligent than you are, whoever you are. That, ultimately, is why we need him and cannot evade his play. The foreground to Shakespeare’s tragedy is
Hamlet’s consciousness of his own consciousness, unlimited but a war itself] (Bloom 86).
The original audience of Shakespeare’s work had a different degree of consciousness before the works of philosophers such as Nietzsche and Freud. Today, after the philosophical proposition by Rene Descartes “I think, therefore I am”, consciousness for a person is to be an individual and to think for themself. In his literary criticism Bloom states that the famous “to be or not to be” monologue describes contemplating consciousness rather than my interpretation of it pertaining to suicide (33-35) Bloom’s biased approach to Shakespeare does not provide a full explanation that is sufficient to compete with the worldly meaning of this
The greatest value of literature is as a mode to further reading and study to develop one’s own opinions and arguments. In Harold Bloom’s Hamlet: Poem Unlimited opinion of Hamlet, the character Hamlet unrealistically, philosophically battles with his own consciousness but surpasses the idea of modern consciousness. Hamlet is not an astral drama as viewed by Bloom but a tragedy by Shakespeare to be understood at a worldly value. Through character development Bloom also describes Hamlet as becoming prodigious and not as the revengeful prince of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. William Shakespeare depicts Hamlet as a thoughtful young man whereas Harold Bloom’s book Hamlet: Poem Unlimited responds to Hamlet by wrongly fantasizing …show more content…
Without proper evidence Bloom states, “We are self-conscious, but Hamlet is consciousness of something” criticizing that Hamlet is not just conscious but is above the average person in awareness (11). “For Hamlet, the play’s a thing,” in Bloom’s analysis, he is somehow self-aware in the play (11).
[Don’t condescend to the Prince of Denmark: he is more intelligent than you are, whoever you are. That, ultimately, is why we need him and cannot evade his play. The foreground to Shakespeare’s tragedy is
Hamlet’s consciousness of his own consciousness, unlimited but a war itself] (Bloom 86).
The original audience of Shakespeare’s work had a different degree of consciousness before the works of philosophers such as Nietzsche and Freud. Today, after the philosophical proposition by Rene Descartes “I think, therefore I am”, consciousness for a person is to be an individual and to think for themself. In his literary criticism Bloom states that the famous “to be or not to be” monologue describes contemplating consciousness rather than my interpretation of it pertaining to suicide (33-35) Bloom’s biased approach to Shakespeare does not provide a full explanation that is sufficient to compete with the worldly meaning of this