How Is Hamlet Crazy

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Jawad Tamimi
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18 May 2015
Hamlet's Madness When a person talks about literature the name Hamlet always comes in play because Shakespeare's Hamlet is one of the most remarkable characters that passed through English literature. The story Hamlet is outstanding because Shakespeare portrays Hamlet and all the other characters acquainted in the book beautifully. He also understood different perspective of human behaviors and involves many aspects of life like morality and sanity. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet he shows Hamlet as a smart person and through all his troubles he becomes a mad man, however, in doing so his mood and behavior begins to negatively change, is his madness real or is he just acting to fool the others. Hamlet's madness was mostly viewed at as fake, and that he was just pretending to be mad. He also needs to be a mad man in …show more content…

Hamlet unlike most of the characters is very weak because he could not control his actions and has gone absolutely mad. In certain parts of the book Hamlet is really insane because of the situation he is dealing with but in other parts he is just faking it in order to play a confusing game with the other man role characters. Hamlet is indeed weak but is also wise and strong thick minded and always wants what is right, which is Hamlet's way. The way he acts in the beginning of the book goes from calm to sad to mad. He turns sad at one point of the book when he realizes his father's murder but the furiously changes because of his knowledge that Claudius has poisoned him in order to be king and marry his mother. Another is that Ophelia has disappointed him because she didn't show the same love to him back and was told to ignore Hamlet. He is also a smart leader because he shows and resembles power in a genius way when he organizes the play which was really clever to prove that Claudius was

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