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* Hamlet *
Epistemological Crisis – study of knowledge- how we come to know things
- We are in a world which we don’t know things anymore- nothing is clear
- Religion becomes a matter of inward experience
o 1- self examination (big in this play)
o 2- universal human nature is just a term/word/name – example of nominalism
o 3- ruling as politics, craft
- Impossible to trust anyone in this play
- Acting is all over the place- cant rely on appearances – a good actor holds a mirror up to nature (Hamlet tells the actors who are performing the play)
Questions that arise in the play (and are never answered)
- Is the ghost a ghost from hell? (In the end everyone is dead)
- Did queen conspire in husband’s murder?
- Did Hamlet r
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