Positive Personal Identity: Integrating theories on ‘Hamlet’s procrastination’ in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tragedy of Hamlet’
Abstract
Science can be understood. Literature can only be felt. Science is an activity of intellect. Literature that of emotions. Art affects us for a lifetime. All great art has something personal and unique about it and it never is merely document on its time. The psychic material tends to create its own form.” (T.S. Eliot, On Poetry and poets) once the dramatist gives birth to a character, it is beyond his control. A statement like ‘Hamlet’s procrastination’ in Shakespeare’s revenge-play The Tragedy of Hamlet (1600) is neither true nor false. This paper showcases the same through the selected most recent psychological and managerial observations and concludes through the critical lens of T.S. Eliot.
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