Bourgeoisie In Hamlet

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Justice is not fulfilled for everyone in Hamlet because everyone’s attention is on the person at the top of the bourgeoisie scale. While King Hamlet is the king, everyone must be watching him and closely associating themselves with his actions and his life while everyone ignores Claudius, his brother at the time; given that it is in everyone's human nature to “become aware of [their] own inner selves, in which the same impulses are still extant, even though they are suppressed.”(Freud 2). These kind of impulses are unlike psychological ones, but more like the tendency for us to desire attention. Even though both Claudius and King Hamlet are bourgeoisie, the king must have been favoured more during his lifetime, raising the question whether …show more content…
Just because Claudius is younger than King Hamlet is not enough reason for King Hamlet to be selected to run as king. Also, as Hamlet demonstrates power struggle over his guilt of Claudius being king and his marriage to Gertrude, he naturally realizes that he is not meeting the expectations of the public if they were to find out that his father was murdered especially considering the luxury resources he has compared to a proletariat person. In other words, the public would expect him to do what a son would do in tribute to his father which is to avenge him. Therefore, when he sees the players exhibiting emotions effortlessly over a loss, he can’t even do that, let alone taking any action. Power struggles, whether they are internal or external, result in frustration and unhappiness with one’s state which is only unfair because it is worse for someone in the bourgeoisie class. When Fortinbras is given control of Denmark by Hamlet at the very end of the play, it oppresses a person who could have ran as