Hamlet: Conscience, Consciousness, and Authenticity
Eden Elieff, MFA
Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:15 pm
Apr 7 - May 12
$105 ($90 Jung Center members)
Limit: 20
What is a human being? How do conscience, consciousness, and authenticity serve or hinder us when facing great personal crises? As Shakespeare's Hamlet confronts his mandate to avenge his father's murder, he begins an inquiry into the Self and his identity, signalled by the play's opening words: "Who's there?" If Shakespeare proved intimidating or irrelevant in high school, this class is for you. Hamlet is accessible and exciting, and his situation is universal and timeless -- a model for our own contemporary dilemmas and a peerless psychological study. Please read Act I for the first class.
Required reading: Hamlet, Folger edition
Eden Elieff, MFA, has taught both fiction and memoir writing to students of all ages and levels of experience, in schools and in private workshops. Her stories and essays have appeared in various literary magazines throughout the country, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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