Sexuality and Aggression in Hamlet Essay -- GCSE Coursework Shakespear

Sexuality and Aggression in settlement In Man and wife Is One Flesh Hamlet and the confrontation with the Maternal Body, Janet Adelman argues that the motivating force behind the plot action in Hamlet is the collapse of boundaries between relationships of individuals, sexes, and divisions of humans (state) and private (love) career. The primary precedent of the breakdown results from the bodily contamination spread through overt sexuality, specifically maternal sexuality. Janet Adelman asserts her feminism into the sexist view of depth psychology to define the contamination as that reason of women that men fear. Adelmans case for the collapse of boundaries is her strength and weakness. Extensive textual evidence supports her claim for the melding of the men, but her choice to push away the womens differentiation is a sarcastic error. Gertrude and Ophelia define themselves through sexuality, memory retention and communication, existing as two individual beings separate f rom the collapsing masculine world. Adelman continues to argue that the power of womens sexuality contaminates all life associated with it. While sexuality is womens most potent power, it is the power to give life and sustain it through maternal fulfillment, not to labor death and further erasure of boundaries through contamination, poison and death. For madness and death follow promptly after the removal of the womens sexuality. Shakespeare expresses the Freudian concept of sexual and rapacious conflict by delegate the traits to womanish and male characters respectively. The alternating suppression, sexuality over aggression and aggression over sexuality, plays out in Hamlet finally proving their symbiotic relationship. The sup... ... strips away female sexuality, life ends. Aggression does not create life. The eradication of the conflict-boundary is a self-sacrificing effort by the men, who in so doing, cover everyone sexual satisfaction to proportionateness the aggressi on, thus resorting to fatal violence and ending their immortality through procreation. Works Cited Adelman, Janet. Man and Wife is One Flesh Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body. William Shakespeare Hamlet. Ed. Susanne L. Wofford. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Boston St. Martins, 256-282. Calhoun, J. Personality and Psychoanalytic Theory. Psychology 1101. UGA. Athens, 6 Nov 1998. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Susanne L. Wofford. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Boston St. Martins, 1994. Stoppard, Tom. Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. radical York Grove, 1967 Sexuality and Aggression in Hamlet Essay -- GCSE Coursework ShakespearSexuality and Aggression in Hamlet In Man and Wife Is One Flesh Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body, Janet Adelman argues that the motivating force behind the plot action in Hamlet is the collapse of boundaries between relationships of individuals, sexes, and divisions of public ( state) and private (love) life. The primary cause of the breakdown results from the bodily contamination spread through overt sexuality, specifically maternal sexuality. Janet Adelman asserts her feminism into the sexist view of psychoanalysis to define the contamination as that power of women that men fear. Adelmans case for the collapse of boundaries is her strength and weakness. Extensive textual evidence supports her claim for the melding of the men, but her choice to ignore the womens differentiation is a critical error. Gertrude and Ophelia define themselves through sexuality, memory retention and communication, existing as two individual beings separate from the collapsing masculine world. Adelman continues to argue that the power of womens sexuality contaminates all life associated with it. While sexuality is womens most potent power, it is the power to give life and sustain it through maternal fulfillment, not to promote death and further erasure of boundaries through con tamination, poison and death. For madness and death follow promptly after the removal of the womens sexuality. Shakespeare expresses the Freudian concept of sexual and aggressive conflict by assigning the traits to female and male characters respectively. The alternating suppression, sexuality over aggression and aggression over sexuality, plays out in Hamlet ultimately proving their symbiotic relationship. The sup... ... strips away female sexuality, life ends. Aggression does not create life. The eradication of the conflict-boundary is a self-sacrificing effort by the men, who in so doing, deny everyone sexual satisfaction to balance the aggression, thus resorting to fatal violence and ending their immortality through procreation. Works Cited Adelman, Janet. Man and Wife is One Flesh Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body. William Shakespeare Hamlet. Ed. Susanne L. Wofford. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Boston St. Martins, 256-282. Calhoun, J. Personalit y and Psychoanalytic Theory. Psychology 1101. UGA. Athens, 6 Nov 1998. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Susanne L. Wofford. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Boston St. Martins, 1994. Stoppard, Tom. Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. New York Grove, 1967