... habit of the mind." (Halliday. 217) The reason that there are so many critics is that there are just as many theories and speculations. Even in the twentieth century on could create or "discover" a new theory or criticism based on the play or it's characters. The character Hamlet, alone, has over two dozen critics from Quinn to Coleridge. Some critics come up with sane interpretations of Hamlet while others use wild ... . . . breed . . ." A fishmonger being a honest tradesman would prove mad for Hamlet to say to Polonius. But in the sense related above, it makes perfect sense. Besides m...

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... may not exist. Or light a candle in front of a piece of plaster and rely on their faith. Faith is a good thing when it is all you have to go on, but we have a brain capable of thought and we should use it. Faith and all the religions that preach it are just forms of control inhibiting our free thought. The idea of free thought will come later, but while we ... happening when we understand? What do we mean with comprehension and knowing and having ideas? That also was the question Plato asked himself about 400 years before Christ. Plato lived in Athena, Greece, in about the same time Ari...

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