Bloom As A Tragic Lens In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

The psychological condition of understanding is not binary. Life is understood by all through different lenses, and that lens is known as perspective. One’s frame of reference creates their outlook, and that outlook generates an individual’s reality. Emotions, intellect, and feelings represent the spectrum of an individual’s kaleidoscopic reality, though all are displayed at one point in time, and at another point in time their arrangement may be entirely different, the colors remain the same. Focus may shift from one portion to another, from sadness to anger, from anger to logic, all while remaining sight on the same picture as a whole. Most individuals are created with the ability to observe the same few aspects of their reality, but with limited sight to other, more complex aspects of their kaleidoscope. Others are only able to focus on …show more content…
Bloom regards Hamlet as Shakespeare’s masterpiece (Bloom). This is shone through his endless and vast work that has been not only inspired by Hamlet, but entirely based off of Hamlet. More than a muse to Bloom, Hamlet has become a template for his vision of the human race. This template is not contained in the seventeenth century, but is everlasting, to Bloom. Through Bloom’s eyes, the short an entertaining tale that William Shakespeare has created, is more than just that (Harold). It is the conception of human intellect, mediated through language. The Bard made this from more than words on paper, to the extent that it is almost as if he injected his DNA into the language. A Shakespearean virus has been passed down generation to generation, and Harold Bloom is letting everyone know that they have been infected (Shapiro). He is less interested in the physical condition of the Shakespearean virus, but he is extremely familiar with the apparent psychological