Hamlet as an Artistic Failure

It was Eliot who said that Hamlet, fat from being success. Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet is most certainly an artistic failure. We know that Hamlet is the longest play written by Shakespeare. It is also the most complex. Eliot thought that Shakespeare could not establish“objective correlative” to Hamlet’s sensibilities. Hamlet’s emotions are vague an always in excess. Yet the disgust is far in excess as compared to the queen’s error, because what she felt may have been genuine compassion. It is most surprising that Hamlet cannot fully comprehend the ferocity of his emotions;..............
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