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Hamlet's Unfeigned Madness

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Throughout the development Shakespeare’s play he is building before the readers a character with a complex mind endowed with a peculiar personality, an emotional state altered by the loss of his father, and a “double madness” (feigned and not feigned). The unfeigned madness of Hamlet that progressively highlights the text is very similar to the clinical picture that some characters have called as complicated grief with depression and psychotic love symptoms. To this insanity described by the playwright and of which the character is not conscious, is deliberately pretense is added by means of seemingly absurd behavior toward her beloved Ophelia. First, he encounters her in an inappropriate way of dressing he carries, “no hat upon [his]

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