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Post by miluska7 on Sept 16, 2017 2:30:40 GMT
I believe that according Shakespeare's writing on the social experiment that Hamlet used to "catch the conscience of the king", that Shakespeare has more of a causal science view of life. This is so because during the social experiment Hamlet devises a plot to remind his uncle and mother of their guilt by staging a play that displays the exact way in which his father was murdered, and by observing the guilt on their faces during this point in the play he would then know for sure that they were indeed the murderers. This experiment is causal in nature because Hamlet is using a "cause and effect" and even "reductionist" mentality for this experiment. The experiment is reductionist in nature because this is not necessarily the only outcome of the experiment but Hamlet is reducing their response to one of guilt. He is ignoring all of the other behavioural variables of the experiment that normative science would potentially observe. For example, the uncle and the mother could be responding in an uncomfortable way because the king was recently murdered and they are shocked by the depiction of the murder as it reminds them of their loss.
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