Hamlet-izing my thesis.
Nov. 9th, 2005 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So I've been thinking on the Honors Thesis a little more, and I actually came up with an idea during Shakespeare (gasp!) today, between arguing with Doctor Smith about Gertrude's innocence and the whole inaction-action shindig. Basically, I would be psychoanalyzing Hamlet (this idea was reinforced when Doctor Smith actually read out a bit about Hamlet from one of Freud's publications). I'm not sure what I would say about him, but psychoanalytic criticism is one of the few things I actually enjoyed from Doctor Idris's class last year. So...
The downside to doing a Shakespeare thesis is that Doctor Smith would be my advisor, and I'm not entirely sure (a) that she likes me very much, (b) that I could put up with her obsession with Shakespeare, or (c) she'd be up for it (she's rather ill). Nonetheless, it's a topic that makes both the English major in me happy and the part of me that misses being a psych major (not that I ever really was one; I was just seriously considering it).
I googled a bit to see how do-able the topic would be, and the prospects are pretty good:
Hamlet and Oedipus Rex
Now, Mother, what's the matter?
Shakespeare in psychoanalysis
Those are only a few of the things I've found... so it's very, very do-able. What do you all think? Should I confront my fear of Doctor Smith and give this topic a shot?
The downside to doing a Shakespeare thesis is that Doctor Smith would be my advisor, and I'm not entirely sure (a) that she likes me very much, (b) that I could put up with her obsession with Shakespeare, or (c) she'd be up for it (she's rather ill). Nonetheless, it's a topic that makes both the English major in me happy and the part of me that misses being a psych major (not that I ever really was one; I was just seriously considering it).
I googled a bit to see how do-able the topic would be, and the prospects are pretty good:
Hamlet and Oedipus Rex
Now, Mother, what's the matter?
Shakespeare in psychoanalysis
Those are only a few of the things I've found... so it's very, very do-able. What do you all think? Should I confront my fear of Doctor Smith and give this topic a shot?