{"id":2682,"date":"2024-02-01T18:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T22:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2024-02-01T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T22:52:07","slug":"shakespeare-2-2-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/shakespeare-2-2-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet&#8217;s Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A source of Hamlet&#8217;s melancholic state<br \/>\nIs tension &#8216;tween his reason and intuition:<br \/>\nWhereas the latter sees potential fate,<br \/>\nThe former&#8217;s bound to logical cognition.<br \/>\nEven before he meets his father&#8217;s ghost,<br \/>\nRegarding that tragic death he feels foul play;<br \/>\nAnd yet, despite such confirmation, the most<br \/>\nHe does is contemplate, and thus delay.<br \/>\nNo wonder, therefore, given his situation,<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s racked with anger, sadness and despair \u2013<br \/>\nThough, thanks to rational imagination,<br \/>\nTo flee this mortal life he doesn&#8217;t dare.<br \/>\n<span style=\"visibility: hidden;\">++<\/span>He acts, at last, when his prophetic Soul<br \/>\n<span style=\"visibility: hidden;\">++<\/span> Reveals Divinity directs his goal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px;\">Ramat Gan<br \/>\n26 January 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source of Hamlet&#8217;s melancholic state Is tension &#8216;tween his reason and intuition: Whereas the latter sees potential fate, The former&#8217;s bound to logical cognition. Even before he meets his father&#8217;s ghost, Regarding that tragic death he feels foul play; And yet, despite such confirmation, the most He does is contemplate, and thus delay. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17,30,16,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}