The William Shakespeare play Hamlet has often been the object of much discussion among critics and literary scholars; while most consider it one of the greatest plays ever written, T.S. Eliot himself criticizes the play in his essay “Hamlet and His Problems.” His central issue, in essence, is that it lacks an appropriate objective correlative – namely, a personification of the emotional state of the character in the form of “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events” (Eliot). Eliot attempts to argue that Hamlet has no objective correlative, and therefore the play fails to convey Shakespeare’s Continue reading...
