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Hamlet, then, is a man divided against himself. That, most of us would agree, although we may differ over whether this sense of alienation derives from a defect in his sensibility or, as Marxists would argue, from the dislocations in his world. It is reasonable to surmise that the division between his parents affected him grievously, although some might argue that his typically riddling account of this is the product of a neurosis:
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© 1987 Michael Hattaway
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Hattaway, M. (1987). Varieties of ecstasy. In: Hamlet. The Critics Debate. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18832-1_10
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