Individual Analysis of Hamlet; Act 4, Scene 7

Individual Analysis Hamlet figure out 4, Scene 7 Steven Roach Friday, November 16, 2012 A Freudian angle of (4. 7 135 145) and (4. 7 9 21) Throughout the scene Claudius depicts a personality that evaluates situations and makes choices out of desire without much concern for consequence. Although Claudius does show a little bit of concern for consequence, he widely distributedly acts from an inner-child psyche. In the scene, Claudius plots with Laertes and acts quickly out of a spirit of DESIRE and makes a plan to kill Hamlet.Demonstrated in the lines A sword unbated, and in a crevice of practice, Requite him for your father. (4. 7. 137 cxl) And I will dot. And for that purpose Ill anoint my sword. I bought unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood no adhesive plaster so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from devastation That is but scratched withal. Ill touch my point With this con tagion, that if I gall him slightly It may be death. (4. 7. 140 145).In these lines, Claudius and Laertes plan to kill hamlet by sharpening a fencing blade and dousing it with a poison that will cripple upon contact. This is clearly a representation of a psyche that acts rapidly out of an sharp sense of desire. Although Claudius will often display act from a sense of the ID or inner-child, he in any case demonstrates, albeit relatively minimal compared to the previous example, a concern for consequence. In the beginning of the scene, he explains to Laertes his reasoning for non prosecuting Hamlet for the death of Polonius, Laertes father.Depicted in the lines Oh, for two special reasons, Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed, only if yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother Lives almost by his looks, and for myself My virtue or my plague, be it either which Shes so conjunctive to my life and soul, That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but b y her. The other motive Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him, Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would, similar the spring that turneth wood to stone, Convert his gyves to graces (4. 9 21). Claudius claims that because of the fact that his mother is completely devoted to him, and the idea that the general public loves him so much the prosecution would end up hurting him more than it would Hamlet. He cannot bouncy without Hamlets mother, so he cannot make the prosecution. Claudius displays a small fraction of his psyche that acts as the super-ego and evaluates situations based upon the eventful outcome.