suspiration of forc’d breath.
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected ‘haviour of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief,
That can denote me truly: these, indeed, seem;
For they are actions that a man might play;
But I have that within me which passeth show;
There is something transcendent of human perception in Hamlet and it is a high level of conscious awareness. It is an awareness that a Protestant society might allow because of freer values regarding internal reflection, but, Hamlet also lived in a time of Christian influence and aspects of both are evident within his character-one reason he may be so undecided much of the time because of the contrasting values in his society.
The theories of Durkheim were centered in religion.
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