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Shakespeare"s Hamlet: Hamlet"s Desire and Coercive Power

&nbsp;&nbsp;The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between Hamlet&quot;s desire and coercive power from the vantage-point of the tragedy of desire, which holds Lacanian point of view.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Hamlet is to be the victim of the political situation after his father&quot;s death. It means that he is isolated from political authority, and he has no choice but to struggle with the gap between his internal frustration and his external coercive power.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Hamlet, however, recognizes his father was cruelly murdered by his uncle from his dead father&quot;s ghost. The ghost stirs his son to avenge this unnatural murder. Hamlet&quot;s desire to take revenge for his dead father starts to burn afterward.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;To examine the situation more carefully, his motivation for revenge is not only to fulfill the ghost&quot;s desire but to embrace this opportunity to unleash his repressed desire, which has been downtrodden by inevitable external coercive powers. For this reason, it is said that the ghost&quot;s desire immediately replicates Hamlet&quot;s desire. Additionally, in the process of his burning desire for revenge, he shows his insanity/delusion, which also arises from his inner restrained desire.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In conclusion, Hamlet&quot;s agony is unavoidably transfigured from one of "The Imagination" to one of "The Symbolic", and in the end Hamlet experiences "Subject Disruption." He, however, can eventually exist in "the Real" after passing these stages. It is said that Hamlet is a real tragic hero who is willing to accept his death, realizing it is the tragic circumstance that results from human desire.