MY REACTIONS TO THE HAMLET COMIC STRIP—HAMLET’S POWERFUL MOTIVATION.

MY REACTIONS TO THE HAMLET COMIC STRIP—HAMLET’S POWERFUL MOTIVATION. My second reaction to Zach Weiner’s comic strip is to reflect again on how remarkable it is that T.S. Eliot’s judgment on Hamlet, as I posted here, was so ridiculously wrong, yet was influential in literary criticism for decades. Eliot described the play of Hamlet as “most certainly an artistic failure” because Hamlet’s strong emotions were in excess of what the situation called for—there was no “objective correlative” for Hamlet’s emotions. Unlike Eliot, the comic strip finds it ridiculous that Hamlet fails to take action against Claudius.