Hamlet is William Shakespeare’s psychological tour de force,
which deals with some of the deepest philosophical and anthropological
questions in life. What is man? Are we innately good, or evil? What
drives us? What curbs us? What is the reason for us to be or not to be? These are the questions the pensive Danish prince Hamlet muses about throughout the haunting story.
The play touches on one of the enduring debates in psychology—whether humans are born with a good nature or an evil one.
Many popular Oprah-esque paradigms today surmise that the reason
people do bad things– the reason for the crime rate, the genocide, the
atrocities we see on the pages of history– is because people have been
infected with evil by their environment. In fact, they warn that viewing yourself as innately evil is harmful to your self-esteem.
The solutions proffered to cleanse the human stain of violence and
wickedness, is a concoction of better education systems, a more stable
economy, improved healthcare and welfare for the poor, etc. Continue at Clint Archer
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