Hamlet: An Interpretation 4

Hamlet is an excellent reader of people. Yes, he does resort to stereotypes. Polonius is a fish-monger. He is prostituting his daughter, Ophelia, for the sake of power. Ophelia is playing along. She is essentially a whore, although a prudish whore. But this presents a problem from Hamlet. He loves and desires his mother. Thus he is frustrated, and then there is aggression which lets out his frustration. Ultimately, this results in scapegoating, structural scapogoating of Ophelia as a whore.

Reading people is a very difficult thing in the modern world. There is no universal system of symbols and signs that you can read as "objective." If someone rolls their eyes, you know what it means... but what does a stare mean? Is it necessarily phallic, sexual interest? We stare at someone who is beautiful because it releases us from memory and we smile. Einstein once said that a smile from a beautiful, American girl lasted an eternity, but now, in this overweight and excessively materialistic world, I often find that I only stare at celebrities and not even. I know it sounds bloody awful, but the world of Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, and Greta Garbo are gone. People are ugly, especially myself.

I can sense sexual interest when a woman twirls her feet ( her phallus), but I have no idea why she is interested in me. I think I am definitely misunderstanding her intentions here because I am rather a nonsexual person. But sometimes I wonder... do people really find me interesting when I do everything to make myself as ugly as possible? I am the ugliest man alive. I dress grungy, wear the same clothes everyday, and deliberately eat kim-chi so my breath stinks. Why? I don't know.

Anyway, Hamlet sure makes himself ugly but people are attracted to him because he taps into the sadistic aggression inside of people. Soon, people gang up on him and attack him universally except Horatio, the philosopher.