... subsequent neurosis", and judging from this quote it is open to question whether this strongly relate to Hamlet's character and his inhibited emotions for his mother. He compares Hamlet to the Greek mythological character Oedipus Rex. The myth has Oedipus condemned by fate to kill his father Laius and sleep with ... I remember? Why, she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite had grown", this is also in Hamlet's first soliloquy and is essential in understanding how Shakespeare's character is suffering from the Oedipal complex. He resents how his mother used to hang on to his father...

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