People sometimes go through hard times. When this happens they usually go into a state of depression and/or have other negative symptoms that lead to negative effects. Some people get depressed while others just go into some form of madness. Imagine that a person were claiming to be insane. Then people would think that this person is actually crazy. But what if acting insane for them was like acting normal. Hamlet is one of those plays written by Shakespeare. The story takes place in Denmark. Prince Hamlet is the son of King Hamlet who was murdered by his brother Claudius. Then Hamlet meets his father's ghost and the ghost tells him the real story of how he died. The ghost then tells Crazy Hamlet to get revenge for him. Should he believe the …show more content…
When his father died he pretended to go insane because he wanted to know if what the old Kings ghost said was true or not. Eventually, Hamlet slips into one form of insanity when he talks to Ophelia. But there are parts of the story that prove Silly Hamlet as being sane. All throughout the play Hamlet pretends to be insane except when he is alone. He talks in verse when he is sane which all the beginning of the lines of a play are capitalized. Hamlet talks in prose too,and this is when the first letter in every line is not capitalized. For example, when hamlet talks to the king he talks in prose so he is pretending to be mad. When he is alone he talks in verse. "The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." He is not actually insane he is just pretending. Hamlet also uses duty ethics. This means he has a duty and obligation to find out what really happened to his father. Hamlet is trying to believe the ghost that looks like his …show more content…
Existentialism is the questioning of life and death. Hamlet does not know whether to live or to die. He gives a soliloquy and questions himself asking if it is better to live or to be dead. This soliloquy is called "To be or not to be." Here he says that if he lives and keeps on living the life he is living right now he will not be happy. Hamlet thinks that if he dies he will go to a better place, but then the fear comes to him. What if that place is worse than what he is living right now. Hamlet cannot be for sure that if he kills himself that he will go to a better place. That is why he does not know what to do. Then Hamlet finds out what the King did to his father was true and looks for a way to revenge. Hamlet makes an allusion talking about Hyperion and satyr. This allusion affects the understanding of the tragedy because it shows how noble Hamlet's dad was compared to Hamlet's uncle. This allusion changes the way that the play is because it gives an idea of how the two brothers are and were. One is godlike (Hyperion) and the other is a drunkard and lustful man. The only reason why this allusion was involved in the play was to give more understanding of the brothers and to show how Hamlet feel towards each of them. He shows that he knows a lot about each of them. The New King wanted to be with the queen and he also wanted the crown. Claudius killed Hamlet's father for his own
Throughout the play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the unclear representation of the protagonist’s actions is present. The protagonist, Hamlet, conducts the idea that he is turning mad. Although, there are many indications which support that this so-called “madness” is part of an act that Hamlet portrays. The other characters within the play try to understand the reasoning behind Hamlet’s madness, but cannot figure out the truth behind it. The main cause of Hamlet’s madness is the realization of his father’s death and the numerous influences his father’s death has on his life. Hamlet can control his actions of madness and specifically acts differently around certain characters. The characters who are more concerned
In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet the main character Hamlet experiences many different and puzzling emotions. He toys with the idea of killing himself and then plays with the idea of murdering others. Many people ask themselves who or what is this man and what is going on inside his head. The most common question asked about him is whether or not he is sane or insane. Although the door seems to swing both ways many see him as a sane person with one thought on his mind, and that is revenge. The first point of his sanity is while speaking with Horatio in the beginning of the play, secondly is the fact of his wittiness with the other characters and finally, his soliloquy.
He is mentally disturbed by the thought of his uncle killing his father to the point where he loses touch with sanity. Hamlet is a tragedy that will never have a straightforward answer as to if he faked being crazy or not. My belief is that Hamlet had in fact lost touch with reality. The slow decline of his mental health throughout lead me to believe he did go crazy, even if he might have been faking it at first. After seeing his father’s ghost, I believe he started acting like he had lost his mind to blame his future actions on the fact that he was crazy. I also believe he truly did lose his mind shortly after when he found out about Claudius murdering his
Hamlet only claims madness because it allows him to say and perform actions he otherwise would be prohibited from, while keeping people from taking his actions seriously. This seems to be part of his initial plan that is first mentioned when he asks Horatio and Marcellus not to make any remarks in relation to his ?antic disposition (1.5.192).? Hamlet?s madness allows him to talk to Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, and Polonius in a manner unsuitable for a prince. He is often disrespectful and insulting in his remarks. Although his acting backfires during his speech to Gertrude, Hamlet is able to severely criticize her for her actions because she thinks he is insane. During the play he also makes many sexual innuendos and even blatantly sexual remarks towards Ophelia such as ?That?s a fair thought to lie between maids? legs (3.2.125).? His convincing insanity act gives him the chance to vent his anger towards Ophelia for her abandonment.
Throughout the Shakespearian play, Hamlet, the main character is given the overwhelming responsibility of avenging his father’s "foul and most unnatural murder" (I.iv.36). Such a burden can slowly drive a man off the deep end psychologically. Because of this, Hamlet’s disposition is extremely inconsistent and erratic throughout the play. At times he shows signs of uncontrollable insanity. Whenever he interacts with the characters he is wild, crazy, and plays a fool. At other times, he exemplifies intelligence and method in his madness. In instances when he is alone or with Horatio, he is civilized and sane. Hamlet goes through different stages of insanity throughout the story, but his neurotic and skeptical personality amplifies his persona of seeming insane to the other characters. Hamlet comes up with the idea to fake madness in the beginning of the play in order to confuse his enemies. However, for Hamlet to fulfill his duty of getting revenge, he must be totally sane. Hamlet’s intellectual brilliance make it seem too impossible for him to actually be mad, for to be insane means that one is irrational and without any sense. When one is irrational, one is not governed by or according to reason. So, Hamlet is only acting mad in order to plan his revenge on Claudius.
... Hamlet is merely a young man, looking for revenge for the death of his father. A young man that has gone through hell and back since his fathers death, losing his love, his mother marrying another man, best friends betraying him, all of which finally lead to his demise. Hamlet shows that he understands real from fake, right from wrong and his enemies from his friends.
‘ “To be or not to be” -- “that is the...” soliloquy. “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to...” agree, the question that no one knows. To think, to know, to know perchance to understand, the truth behind it all... ’ Was it, or was it not true that Hamlet was faking his insanity, really suffering, or perhaps even both. First, this is what insanity is; insanity is acting peculiar, but not knowing that they are. Also, it is going through a lot of stresses at the same time causing you to not think straight. Hamlet was not completely suffering from insanity. It wouldn’t make sense.
Justification of Hamlet's Sanity in Shakespeare's Hamlet Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" is about a complex protagonist, Hamlet, who faces adversity and is destined to murder the individual who killed his father. Hamlet is a character who although his actions and emotions may be one of an insane person, in the beginning of the book it is clear that Hamlet decides to fake madness in order for his plan to succeed in killing Claudius. Hamlet is sane because throughout the play he only acts crazy in front of certain people, to others he acts properly and displays proper prince like behavior who is able to cope with them without sounding crazy, and even after everything that has been going on in his life he is able to take revenge by killing his father's murderer. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is sane but acts insane to fulfill his destiny of getting vengeance on his father's murderer. We can see this when he talks to Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia, and his mother.
In Hamlet, he seems to be mad, but there is a question that everyone asks when reading or watching this play “was it, or was it not true that Hamlet was faking his insanity, really suffering, or maybe even both.” First, this is what insanity is: insanity is acting crazy, but not knowing that they’re acting crazy. Also, it’s going through a lot of stress at the same time causing you to act stranger then a normal person. Hamlet was not totally insane. It doesn’t fit.
Hamlet throughout the play seems insane but in reality it is only an act to achieve his goal of killing his father's murderer. Hamlet chooses to go mad so he has an advantage over his opponent and since he is the Prince of Denmark certain behavior is unacceptable, so by faking madness he is able to get away with inappropriate sayings and actions. We can see this when he talks to Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia and his mother. When Hamlet talks to Horatio in the first act he says how he is going to "feign madness" and that:
Hamlet appears to be a rather philosophical character. He is skeptical and expresses views that nowadays can be described as existential and relativist, but those terms did not exist in Shakespeare’s time. Existentialism analyzes existence and the way humans appear to exist in this world. It is concerned with the individual; finding oneself and finding a meaning to life by one’s own measures.That is exactly what Hamlet is going through. Presented with the jarring conflict of avenging his father’s death, Hamlet finds his meaning to life shortly before dying himself among others tangled in this mess. He was tasked by the ghost of his father to kill Claudius in an act of vengeance, which would be considered noble (though in this case, it is a regicide avenging a regicide; treason for treason). The ideals of society demand that he...
The tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare is about Hamlet going insane and reveals his madness through his actions and dialogue. Hamlet remains one of the most discussed literary characters of all time. This is most likely due to the complex nature of Hamlet as a character. In one scene, Hamlet appears happy, and then he is angry in another and melancholy in the next. Hamlet’s madness is a result of his father’s death which was supposedly by the hands of his uncle, Claudius. He has also discovered that this same uncle is marrying his mom. It is expected that Hamlet would be suffering from some emotional issues as result of these catastrophes. Shakespeare uses vivid language, metaphors, and imagery to highlight how Hamlet’s madness influences several important aspects of his life including his relationships and the way he presents himself.
People in today's society are under pressure by parents and other people that often leads to stress. Teens can already be under lots of stress with other things and parents can make it much worse. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, he is under stress by his mother's early remarriage after his father's death. Throughout the play, Hamlet is either sane, insane, or temporarily insane. Claudius was in the wrong for not only killing Hamlet’s father, but then for marrying his mother shortly after.
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 was one of the main characters in the story. Hamlet is thoughtful and philosophical, because of Hamlet action, and soliloquy that happened when Claudius was praying to God for the “primal eldest curse” (3.3.37-38). Hamlet could have been killed Claudius at the time that he was praying. If the King was dead after confessing his sin;then, Claudius would surely wn to heaven. However, Hamlet did not want the King to go to heaven; due when Claudius killed King Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear without giving ghost daddy the chance to pray, and, therefore, King Hamlet must suffer through the punishment of eternal fire.