... seems not an issue with Hamlet anymore but to him, a rivalry between himself and Claudius. "Hamlet is able to do anything - except take vengeance on the man who did away with his father and took that father's place with his mother, the man who shows him the repressed wishes of childhood realized", Freud on Hamlet which shows a perfect analysis on why Hamlet cannot bring himself to ... kill Claudius - because of his childhood repressed emotions which gradually become uninhibited as we see in Act 3 Scene 4. "Thus the loathing which should drive him on ... to revenge is replaced in him by...

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