because it lessens the effect the piece will have on the reader. In “Hamlet” there are various ‘layers’ to the play, you have a basic layer which can be defined as the storyline readers will follow in which Hamlet tries to get revenge on his uncle for killing his father. Then comes the critical thinking layers in which readers
that have been made by the science, secondly the flow of ways of thinking in art and literature. Besides, the rejection of the traditions and values once set by the bygone Victorian age. The intellectual figures and artists started to think more rationally to cope with the new innovations and thoughts of the modern age. There are new ways of assessing the life like the individualistic and the empirical perspectives that attacked hierarchy, race, and class. There is also a preoccupation with inner-self
In a volume of Bloom's Literary Themes, Shakespeare's Hamlet is considered as the 'supreme literary portrait' of alienation, whereas for some, Achilles in the Iliad. Other literary works portrayed as dealing with the concept of alienation are: The Bell Jar ( 1963), Black Boy (1945), Brave New World (1931)
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin