Hamlets Insanity In Hamlet

There is a distinct division of opinion among the other characters of the play about Hamlet's sanity and the split is along gender lines. Ophelia and Gertrude both state that Hamlet has gone mad, but the major male characters, on the other hand, like Polonius think that there is "method" in Hamlet's "madness," that his insanity is a surface mask to shield him as he plans the darker purpose of revenge. Since Hamlet is disturbed by the sudden death of his father and his mother's marriage to his uncle, King Claudius, the abnormality of his behavior to some extent is also understandable. Hamlet is naturally withdrawn, dark, and passive in the wake of those traumatic events. He also shows this when he constantly releases his anger with lines like "How (weary), stale, flat, and unprofitable seems to me all the uses of this world!" His self-exile and his self-reproach are essentially normal reactions to a series of events that he must avenge at his dead father's command but without further direction against a powerful chain of power within the guilty King.

       The most interesting thing about all of the characters' guesses as to the logic behind Hamlet's insanity is that the majority of their opinions stem from the thing that most plagues or preoccupies them. Claudius believes that Hamlet is crazy because he has a secret. This was ironic because the secret that Hamlet does have is that he knows that Claudius is his father's murderer. The very secret that plagues Claudius is the same that plagues Hamlet. Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, is wrapped up in her guilt about marrying Claudius so soon after the death of her late husband. She thinks that this must be what makes Hamlet rant so incoherently. While spying on Hamlet for the King, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern decide that he is going crazy because he can no longer fulfill his potential. Their betrayal of their school chum is fueled by the same blind ambition that they believefuels Hamlets insanity. Polonius thinks that Hamlet must be mad

Many people, while reading and studying Hamlet, often question the sanity of various characters throughout the play. There are many signs throughout Shakespeare’s writing that indicate a lost sense of sanity in the main characters Hamlet, his uncle/father Claudius, his mother/aunt Gertrude, and Ophelia. Each of these character’s sanity plays a large role in the plot of the play.

Hamlet’s insanity can be thought of as a tragedy or misconception of reality. The death of his father had shaped the first few impressions of his own persona as well as a new experience with his new aunt. As  a result of his genius insanity prince Hamlet has devised a plan to make things more clear to the audience. “Hamlet’s behavior strikes the audience as abnormal on  several occasions. For example, Hamlet seems to be really mad when he is in front of Ophelia in disordered clothes. He behaves as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of the horror”.  As the progress of the play foreshadows a significant end to his insanity that he acts upon.  As the play progresses throughout, Hamlet finds ways in order to give others the impression that he has lost his sanity from his “love” of Polonius’s daughter Ophelia. “(Ophelia)He grabbed me by the wrist and held me hard, then backed away an arm’s length and just looked at me, staring at me like an artist about to paint my

Hamlet Madness can drive people to do crazy things. In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare there are many characters that go mad. It got to the point to where Hamlet would marry his own mother to keep Claudius from ruling. Madness is eventually what gets everyone killed in the end. To conclude revenge is a very power feeling that can be deadly.

Is Hamlet insane or genius? He is distracted and his mind is blank as he races towards an end where nothing matters as long as Claudius lives an eternal hell. His mind more complex than the family, friends, and readers know, an Einstein of his time, a true and composed genius. Broken, shattered, and soulless or vengeful, obedient, and truly cruel. Insane or intelligent that is for you to decide, but in this paper I will state my argument on why Hamlet is truly genius and a complete mastermind that drives the plot of the story to a disturbing end and a grucum finale in which murder and revenge are the subject of the matter.

In Hamlet, by shakespeare, and intelligent scholar’s piecemeal development of insanity is portrayed during the undertaking of revenging his father’s killer. Hamlet’s tragic flaw, is being irresolute. He is always complaining in drawn out monologues, about his discontent with his father’s death, but delays taking action in revenging his father’s death, which ultimately resulted in his death, as well as every other significant member in his life, except Horatio and Fortinbras. Hamlet is an intelligent scholar and student of theology, but is also very sensitive and irresolute, which crates moral quandary for him to seek revenge on his father’s murderer. For example, when Hamlet is met by the ghost of his father, and confronted

Throughout the entire play of Hamlet there is a debate to whether Hamlet is sound of mind or if his mind had dipped into the confines of pure insanity from all the traumatic experiences he had gone throughout the play. If Hamlet is actually sound of the mind and has been putting on an act the entire time, then there is validity to him believing in vanity of his own acting ability over the actors and actresses hired by the king, but if he does bore that tragic mask of insanity under his society mask it shows that by the end of his life not only was his death tragic, but the mask he put on had completely shattered by the end of his revenge. As I read the play I continued to realize that even if Hamlet had dipped into insanity, he always had a

According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, 20% of Canadians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. Mental illness is a serious issue within society which can hinder the lives of all who are affected by it. Insanity (or “madness” as it is called in Hamlet), is defined by google as a state of frenzied or chaotic activity. Madness is something which can be exploited by those who appear to suffer from it. The exploiting of insanity stems primarily from the criminal justice system, where a plea of insanity could potentially get a murderer a sentence of some time in the mental hospital instead of a life in prison.

Very rarely is an individual born with madness; more often than not, madness is inherited from experiences they have had. Hamlet had walked into the forest after being informed by his friends about the ghost that they saw, and it had turned out to be hamlet's father. Along with it, dysfunction had overtaken the family because of Hamlet’s curiosity of his father’s death and his madness from it. The mystery of death has the power to change the appearance of a person; more primitively, Hamlet’s father informing his son about his death and the madness that followed from Hamlet’s curiosity.

In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare Hamlet appeared to be mad after speaking with his father’s ghost about getting revenge on his uncle, Claudius, for killing his father, Old Hamlet, also, Hamlet’s unrequited love for Ophelia was one of the central ideas in the play that eventually led to Hamlet’s madness, this develops the idea of appearance becoming reality. In the beginning of the play, Hamlet appears to be mad after speaking with the ghost of his father, Old Hamlet. Hamlet says to Horatio “Here,as before,never, so help you mercy, how strange or odd soe’er I bear myself—As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on”(I.V.89-192). In this quote Hamlet is letting Horatio know that he is going to feign madness in order to get revenge for his father’s death.

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a series of tragic events unfolds as the main character, Hamlet, quickly slips into a state of insanity due to the murder of his father Hamlet, the King of Denmark. From the beginning of the play Hamlet is portrayed as undoubtedly shaken and depressed by the death of his father as well as crazed by it. As the play goes on though, Hamlet sees the ghost of his recently deceased father and plummets into a deep insanity. After this point Hamlet informs a few close friends and family members that he will begin to “act” insane, although this is truly an expression made by Hamlet to justify his actions rather than admit to his insanity. Hamlet’s madness is real and progressively becomes worse throughout the play and although

Hamlet finding out about this terrible act had brought him distress and promised his father that he would get revenge for his murder. He first needed hard proof though if his uncle truly did kill his father, just in case the ghost he was talking to was actually a demon. To make sure no one thinks he is up to anything, he begins to act as if he had gone mad. No one knew of this plan other than Horatio his best friend. After a while of Hamlet acting out of sort King Claudius was determined to find out what was wrong with Hamlet ,and he was having this type of behavior. Claudius sends two of Hamlet’s old friends Guildensten and Rosencratez to seek out information on Hamlet of why he has been the way he has been of recent. Which Hamlet soon realizes that he can not trust either of them. He even gives them a chance to admit of what they are doing. Also Polonius believes that Hamlet has fallen into madness because of rejected love from his daughter Ophelia. His reasoning of this is because One of the few acts of madness he displays to the people around him involved Ophelia which frighten the Hell out of her. Which Hamlet realized that could blow his cover of acting mad and he couldn’t afford. The way that he is acting was for the

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark was written by William Shakespeare as it became one of the most influential plays in world literature from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth-First Century. In all honesty, William Shakespeare, the “Bard of Avon”, was regarded as the greatest playwright in English literature as his most famed plays include Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The prominent trend in most of Shakespeare’s writing is the use of tragedy as well as moral insanity, resulting in the protagonist’s demise. Shakespeare was successful in implementing elements of tragedy and insanity in the phenomenal play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, as he captured the hearts of the Elizabethans as well as our contemporary society.

Hamlet endures many struggles throughout the play, from the realization that his uncle murdered his father, witnessing his mother marry his uncle and the discussions with the ghost of his father. These claims give reason to believe that what Hamlet witnesses pushed him into insanity, but there is stronger evidence that points to Hamlet’s display of intelligence and rational thinking as the deciding line that tips Hamlet’s actions into the glass of sanity. In Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, the protagonist feigns an act of insanity in order to avenge his late father by murdering his uncle. Hamlet displays an impressive amount of self restrain and control which makes it evident that he still has a conscience. He is clever in that he covertly chooses how he acts around different people and gives himself time to analyze situations and then act appropriately given the different circumstances.