Hamlet is often perceived as a character-expounding and thoughtfultechnically termed as relativist, existentialist, and sceptical. The various theories set up by critics, but sympathetically, has at all times puzzled them, bear a partial truth that Shakespeare’s Hamlet is poignantly a study of the tragedy of thought and reflection, but, at the same time it equally bears a fractional truth, sensitively accepted, that Hamlet’s ‘dilemma’ (that tossed his whole soul) delayed his thoughts and actions and furthered his final performance. In addition, the present paper also makes an effort to unveil Hamlet’s preoccupied and existential problems and his equilibrium with his inner-self and his constant- ecstasy of self-torture that deferred his ultimate resolution of avenging his father’s murderer. This way, the play Hamlet, the most prime of Shakespeare dramatic art, gathers a serious critical attention, amidst its most turbulent psychological crisis, and conveys such a psycho inclination that even in the 21st century world, every psychoanalyst peers it as the fundamental problems of humanity, still driven with. The present pursuit realises truly, the admired maxim that literature should ‘hold mirror up to nature’, and therefore, uniformly probes into the exceptional, conceptual anguishes of Hamlet.
Research Scholar, Dept. of English Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
