Complexity of the Human Mind
Elliot’s Brilliance of the Rigid Kind and Complexity of the Human Mind The key to T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism of Hamlet lies in his brilliant boldness of an attack on one of the most famous and intricate plays ever written and later staged in thousands of theaters around the world. The verdict is daringly stated in the first sentence of his essay, “Hamlet the play is the primary problem, and Hamlet the character only secondary,” and explicitly scattered throughout the article in sentences such as “the play is most certainly an artistic failure,” “Shakespeare tackled a problem ...
