Hamlet Part 2

Gil Bailie's Reflections on William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The duty to avenge the murder of one's father collides with the Christian commandment to love one's enemies. Hamlet's hesitation to perform his sacred duty provides the opening for Mr. Bailie to shine the illuminating rays of René Girard's mimetic hypothesis on the role of violence in the origins of human culture and personhood by means of Shakespeare's dramatic masterpiece.