T.S. Eliot

"Few critics have even admitted that Hamlet the play is the primary problem, and Hamlet the character only secondary." Eliot agrees that Hamlet has problems, but he thinks that Hamlet the play has more problems than the character. Eliot points out that sometimes creative people, "through some weakness in creative power [exercise their creativity]in criticism instead." I did not understand why Eliot says this when he goes on to criticize Hamlet. Eliot is still being a critic, he is just not criticizing the character. Eliot thinks that Shakespeare copied the play, and that the play is flawed because there is no "objective correlative" to give reason to Hamlet's emotions. As a teenage idiot, I think I have zero credibility to say that Shakespeare's play is not a work of art. I have not heard of the plays Eliot says Shakespeare copied, and to me, Hamlet's emotions seem perfectly legitimate. His father just died and his mother married the man who murdered his father, so Hamlet is so mad that he is going crazy. It does, however, make sense that Hamlet is experiencing "a feeling which he cannot understand" or "objectify." Hamlet cannot understand his feeling, so he cannot act on it, which is a main theme of the play.
Eliot's discussion of Gertrude is interesting. "Her character is so negative and insignificant that she arouses in Hamlet the feeling which she is incapable of representing." Hamlet has created an emotion out of Gertrude which is to large for her "insignificant role" to justify. This is completely contradictory to Freud's analysis, in which Gertrude is the key to Hamlet's emotions because Hamlet's incestuos childhood desires make him understand Claudius' actions, and stop him from killing Claudius.
Here are words I did not know:
Vicarious: performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another
Aberrations: the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course
Stratification: putting in layers
Irrefragable: not to be disputed or contested
Superfluous: being more than is sufficient or required; excessive
Feigned: pretended
Ruse: being more than is sufficient or required; excessive