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I need help for my essay,any help will be nice.
The Q is "Does Hamlet help to bear out Freud's theory that suggests Hamlet is suffering from an Oedipus complex?

Try using Google. I took your question exactly as you stated it into Google and ended up with several articles that should give you a lot of info for your paper.

I won't tell you how to write this essay, but I can tell you how to write a literary criticism essay using this question as an example.

You'll need to take three basic steps for the research stage:
1. Read the primary source (eg "Hamlet")
2. Read some relevant criticism and take notes
3. Re-read the relevant parts of the primary source (eg the scenes with Gertrude) and take notes

After that you'll need to do some comparing of your notes, some thinking, some planning, and some writing.

To find relevant criticism, first look at your copy of the text. There may be a short essay on this very topic in the back (it's a common topic), or perhaps a paragraph or two within a more general essay. If not, there may be a list of reputable criticism which you can search for in your library. If not, you can search your library catalogue for "Hamlet AND Gertrude AND Oedipus" and you're bound to find something. You can also look in encyclopedias (Gertrude has a Wikipedia page, for instance), because they may have short lists of reputable, relevant criticism.

To find the relevant parts of the primary source, find a full-text online version of "Hamlet" (google "full text hamlet") and search for all the instances "Gertrude" comes up (your browser has a "find" function, right?). Not every single time will be relevant, so read them all and then flag the ones you think have an impact on your essay question. (Like, mark the passage in your text, or copy&paste the full-text into a document and highlight the relevant passage, etc.)

Now you just have to put all the notes together, come to your own conclusions, frame your argument, choose what evidence best supports it, write an outline for your essay, and write the essay! Good luck, I hope I helped!! Please ask if you have any more questions and I will try to help.

of course hamlet is an example of the fruedian oedipal complex. it's much more than just attachment to mommy. "to be or not to be, that is the question" gets poignantly to the crisis hamlet endured. can he be himself or that which destiny demanded of him? his crisis is so much more than a simple oedipal complex. his is a crisis of being, ego-development, courage, and decision-making.

What an outdated, outmoded question. Freud's influence on Hamlet is very changed from when I went to high school. Freud was all anyone knew as far as the father of psychoanalysis and all, but Hamlet was not attracted to mommie because of any Freudian tendancies. It was all he freaking knew was mommie. Who else did he know?

I don't think so. Hamlet's relationship with his mother was accidental, not knowing who she was. For the Oedipus complex to be valid, he would have had to know she was his mother. +5