Deconstruction and Hamlet Through a plot of revenge, Hamlet becomes an extremely controversial character. Throughout the play Hamlet is stuck in a constant internal conflict. Hamlet simultaneously has a father in his real father, Old King Hamlet and a father in his step-father (or uncle-dad) King Claudius. The text 's undecidability is portrayed through these disheveled father-son relationships. Although the text signifies that Hamlet has two fathers, he concurrently has none. In Shakespeare 's Hamlet the disrupted relations between sign, signifier and signified contributes to Hamlet 's relationship, or lack thereof, with his two father figures portrayed through the text 's undecidability.
Being that Old King Hamlet is dead and may or may …show more content…
(Act III scene iv)
She explicitly states that she does not hear, nor the ghost concluding Hamlet is mad. The reason the ghost appears to Hamlet is unclear along with the fact that there is no real truth to whether or not the ghost even exists. Moreover, the ghost’s character still adds to Hamlet 's confusing father-son relationships. As per deconstruction the sign defined in this text is “father” and the signified being the reality of these fatherly relationships. Being that Hamlet harshly rejects King Claudius’ relationship with his mother Queen Gertrude; he does not accept King Claudius as a father figure. He struggles with the idea of his mother 's marriage. The lines between father and role model end skewed for Hamlet. The text undermines the generally accepted truth of how a father to son relationship should exist. Typically a father is a male role model who the son looks up too. In this idea the father does not necessarily have to be biological. There are many cases in which someone 's “father” is not the person who is biologically responsible for their birth. However, in Hamlet caused he would rather have no father than accept Claudius as a father because even though he refuses to concretely admit that he knows Claudius murdered his father, he is internally stuck with the unconscious idea. Many times Hamlet exclaims his disgust in his mother 's relationships and defines his father and his uncle in relational (and often rude)
Being that Old King Hamlet is dead and may or may …show more content…
(Act III scene iv)
She explicitly states that she does not hear, nor the ghost concluding Hamlet is mad. The reason the ghost appears to Hamlet is unclear along with the fact that there is no real truth to whether or not the ghost even exists. Moreover, the ghost’s character still adds to Hamlet 's confusing father-son relationships. As per deconstruction the sign defined in this text is “father” and the signified being the reality of these fatherly relationships. Being that Hamlet harshly rejects King Claudius’ relationship with his mother Queen Gertrude; he does not accept King Claudius as a father figure. He struggles with the idea of his mother 's marriage. The lines between father and role model end skewed for Hamlet. The text undermines the generally accepted truth of how a father to son relationship should exist. Typically a father is a male role model who the son looks up too. In this idea the father does not necessarily have to be biological. There are many cases in which someone 's “father” is not the person who is biologically responsible for their birth. However, in Hamlet caused he would rather have no father than accept Claudius as a father because even though he refuses to concretely admit that he knows Claudius murdered his father, he is internally stuck with the unconscious idea. Many times Hamlet exclaims his disgust in his mother 's relationships and defines his father and his uncle in relational (and often rude)