Body And Mind : An Inquiry Into Their Connection And Mutual Influence, Specially in Reference to Mental Disorders
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143 And the result is that he who writes the " Sorrows of Wer- ter " at twenty-five, writes " Faust " at fifty. Let it not any longer escape attention that the deliherate feigning of insanity was ai act in strict conformity with Ham- let's character ; he was by nature something of a dissimulator, that faculty having been born in him. Though it is not said that his mother, the queen, was privy to the murder of her husband, yet from the words of the ghost, who prefaces his revelations by stating ...how the uncle had '' won to his shame- ful lust the will of my most seeming virtuous queen," it would appear that if she were not actual party to the crime, she was something almost as bad : and at any rate, she, a matron of nearly fifty years of age — " an age at which the hey-day of the blood is tame and waits upon the judgment" — had within two months of her husband's death rushed with wicked speed to incestuous sheets. "Well, in truth, might her son exclaim, " O wonderful son, that can so astonish a moth- er I " But if Hamlet's character had received no taint from his mother, he was not altogether so fortunate on his father's side ; for he was the nephew of the " bloody bawdy villain " — the "remorseless, lecherous, treacherous, kindless villain." We see, then, the signification which there was in his speech to Ophelia — " You should not have believed me ; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it." His uncle, however, appears to have absorbed all the vice of the stock for his generation, as one member of a tainted family is sometimes seen to drain off, as it were, the bad blood of it.
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