Hamlet returns from England upon escaping his death, which was Claudius' real motive for the trip. Laertes' sister, Ophelia, is in love with Hamlet. But after following the advice of her brother and her father, she ends her relationship with him. Thus Hamlet then goes on denying ever loving Ophelia. This and the death of her brother cause her to go mad. Claudius and Laertes' devise a plot to murder Hamlet. Gertrude then enters to tell the news that Ophelia has drowned. Claudius drops a poisoned pearl in the cup intended for Hamlet. When Hamlet refuses the drink, Gertrude unwittingly drinks it. Laertes then cut the Prince with a tainted sword. The two switch foils, and Hamlet wounds Laertes with the poisoned weapon. When Gertrude collapses, Laertes realizes Claudius' treachery; he begs for forgiveness and blames the King before he dies. Hamlet attacks Claudius with the poisoned sword and then forces him to drink from the poisoned cup before he, too, succumbs the effects of the poison.
             This catastrophe seems to be attributed to the oedipal role of Hamlet when considering the various findings of Freud. This conscience, whose function Freud named "The secondary system", developed out of the conscience. Therefore it controls the demands of our unconscious urges, chiefly sexual and aggressive. Freud discovered that repressed fantasies might exert a powerful and continual influence on one as an adult. As suggested by Freudian theory, conscious processes are marked by inhibition, restraint of action, and use of reason. A certain amount of repression improves the ability to be thoughtful by eliminating conflicts that interfere with thought. But too much repression may cause creative thinking to become inhibited. Within the Oedipus conflict there are two main sad states the mind passes through when it is subjected to too much repression. The first state of withdrawing from the outside world is called pathologica...