Ophelia's suicide deserves objection. Composite figure, half-empty, half-mermaid, his voice seduces white Hamlet. It represents the ideal virginal male whose upside is that the waste mud. Continue to clarify what constitutes character. In
this piece, some words or meanings back more often than others in the mouths of several characters as in any written or spoken production elsewhere. Those around the theme of prostitution are remarkable. They are based on the image of mackerel and seller.
Indeed, Hamlet accuses Polonius, Ophelia's father, behaving like a "pimp", a "fishmonger [1] . "Monger" a merchant, a seller of fish that want seducing catch. It becomes mackerel by metonymy. It would one who sells Ophelia.
Polonius on his side somehow makes the same criticism to Ophelia when he warns her against Hamlet as seducer
"Who did not show the color as their clothing,
Simple procurers of sacrilegious desires,
Which, like pious pimps ("bawds") playing the holy
coax better fool [2] .
"Bawds" Ophelia is not quite a madam, not a prostitute. It could become the madam of a seducer wants to take.
And Ophelia?
She knows the love of Hamlet from the beginning. His heart "swollen with pride, impudent libertine, crowd the trail of spring delights [3] . Hamlet was in fact stated in a letter in which he announces that he will love "as her body is hers (that of Hamlet? The Ophelia ? As long as he (she) is alive (e)?).
This letter is serious, she reported an untold love: "I have no art to count my sighs [4] . Hamlet will "probably" ambiguously:
1 - he doubts the reality, the sun, fire, stars, the truth, except love. A love that are certain
2 - he doubts, so he questions, he suspects of infidelity Ophelia [5]
Hamlet But when he wrote this letter? When Polonius has he learned?
In some stagings, the scene where Ophelia returns his letters before the one where Hamlet Polonius asks Ophelia to avoid it. When Hamlet comes to recognize the appearance of his father, he goes to Ophelia as "from hell", "tilting [6] " the light from his eyes it as a spectral light frightening. Hamlet himself is now a ghost. It embodies the spectrum itself.
Considerate soon his father, Ophelia tells him he had already made his letter. We learn the contents of this letter by Polonius who realizes (after the confession of Ophelia to Polonius) to the King and Queen. The scene where Ophelia of Hamlet makes the letter is later in the course of the piece. It may be that Hamlet has written several letters which we do not know.
In this piece, we are still learning the events afterwards. Their concatenation reality is rather hidden. It seems the reverse of the chronological part.
If we summarize a way of timing, this gives:
1 - Hamlet loves Ophelia and she knows
2 - Hamlet sees a spectrum and spectrum becomes in turn
3 - As it comes to spectrum Ophelia frightened by the light of her eyes
4 - she makes her letters to Hamlet, she drop her love
5 - Ophelia warns her and tells her father have already made letters
But in absolute Ophelia may well have delivered his letters before the death of Hamlet's father. Or, after seeing his brother and before the appearance of spectral Hamlet. The moment when Ophelia receives these letters is very important because it allows us to interpret the acts of Ophelia.
Is that why time does not "seal [7] ? There is not a strong point in time that reflect and serve as a cue to locate any other time cues to build a timeline. What Lacan calls an anchoring point, the point is everyone else. In culture, the anchoring point is often critical of the death of a prophet (Jesus Christ, Mohamed ..).
If the letter is after the warning of Polonius, she obeys him when the refusal of Hamlet and submits to an authority. In doing so, she is a prostitute by her father and she betrays Hamlet. At the same time, she lied to her father by claiming to have already made letters.
Otherwise, it will not lie to his father, but Hamlet has been refused for reasons other than that given by his father and brother. In this case, Ophelia is not the good girl she claims to be the eyes of his father. She's already taken by the love of Hamlet. It does not obey orders to avoid Hamlet that Polonius has not yet given. Suddenly, the scene of the ban by the father no longer has any substance or value. It's a comic parody. Ophelia is not that which lies between the dilemma of listening to his father or to follow his love. Loyalty which Hamlet is certainly of a different nature than his father. It is anyway one who wonders how to respond to love, with or without the advice of his father. Ultimately, it is unclear what Ophelia Is it true.
So the question is without doubt the loyalty of Ophelia in Hamlet to Polonius that cons. Translators part astray when they make a classic Oedipal interpretation (notes 8 p. 1462 and 4 per 1464).
In reality, the warning of Polonius speaks to the mother of Hamlet beyond Ophelia. That is exactly what Hamlet accuses his mother. To leave his reason being "the madam of desire (" reason Panders will ") [8] " when she gets in the bed of her husband's brother died.
Obviously, it is desire that His power is at stake on the reason can only get into his service, follow them, to deceive even the subject who feels sincere. It is the desire Lacanian inherently misleading, because the Other's desire. Literally, a desire which is not the subject and with which it is door-to-fake. The desire to deceive others because he has already cheated because of desire.
Doubt in Hamlet is the desire of Ophelia. That Polonius is not seen. This is not love courtiers who is wrong as alleged Polonius. Desire is the real question. And first that of Hamlet as Gertrude questioned in the scene where he kills Polonius. The problem
Ophelia changes in nature. It is not a prostitute by Polonius, Hamlet knows this. His doubts are not directed at Polonius, but beyond Ophelia, his mother. Ophelia is only by the figure of Hamlet's mother who is behind it. Basically, Hamlet knows and always knew that Ophelia can love it and have no doubt. As it is the fool, if she loves him, Ophelia understand that lying when he questioned her.
Why Ophelia she makes him a letter instead of keeping it in secret without telling his father? Hence comes the necessity to commit suicide? To understand that Hamlet can not really love him as he loves his mother at the point of wanting death? That Hamlet can not love the price of sacrificing his love for his mother, he does not? The infidelity of Hamlet? What seems crucial is the meeting of a pure real spectrum. Would not this bad encounter in the real spectrum which grows in the act of making the letters and kill his love of the same blow?
suite next month.
[1] - p. 769
[2] - p. 721
[3] - p. 715
[4] - p. 765
[5] - p. 811
[6] - p. 753 and 754
[7] - p. 745
[8] - p. 865
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