Hamlet and Pluralism: A Postmodernist Metaphor
The present study means to investigate Hamlet in the light of postmodernist-Deconstructive theoretical framework. The play seems to reinforce the overarching dominant patriarchal meta-narrative, with supposed unitary voice and unified identities. The current reading means to show that the play is a metaphor of postmodernism with pluralistic subjectivities, multiple alternative micronarrative voices. It manifests the postmodernist notion of subjective, personal and local truth, against the idea of universal truth and reality. Its major features are self-difference, undecidability, and uncertainty. The regimes of truth in the form of dominant ideology are challenged, deconstructed and undermined, creating a zone of the postmodern condition of reality and truth as the effect of power and rhetoric. The postmodern condition does not push for the replacement of one totality with another. It creates a third space of pluralism, where all the voices are disjoined in a zone of the difference without hierarchy.
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Pluralism, Uncertainty, Absolutist, Undesirability
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(1) Muhammad Ayub Jajja
Associate Professor, Department of English, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Jajja, M. A. (2019). Hamlet and Pluralism: A Postmodernist Metaphor. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(III), 25-30. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).04
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