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Insanity In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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INTRODUCTION Hamlet play is one of the most honored best known, most analyzed work by great English writer William Shakespeare, which has been studied by many scholars. Hamlet is a play rich in incident and possesses a complex plot, with not only subsidiary action, but also a play with in a play. There is a great deal of suspense and a fair amount of sensational matter. There are elements like supernatural visitation, incestuous marriage, and feigned madness. The story line of Hamlet follows a vein of madness that begins with Claudius murdering king Hamlet and ending with the tragic killing of almost every main character. …show more content…

He is clearly a sensitive and idealistic young man, he is a scholar, a philosopher and a poet, he loves Ophelia’s he is a young noble man who conceives the finest thoughts and has a high intellectual quality, but because of his father’s death and his mother’s hasty marriage he is grievous and want to take revenge from his uncle king Claudius. Walley describes Hamlet as``A sensetive gentleman scholar disillusioned in his social contacts and oppressed with the villainy and futility of life” . (WALLEY …show more content…

He discovered the truth from a supernatural being, at the time, he questions whether it is evil or something he can trust. The instruction from the ghost to avenge his fathers death was immediately taken into action.
FEIGNED MADNESS.
Hamlet from the very start acted mad to challenge and manipulate other characters. There is much evidence in the play that Hamlet deliberately feigned fits of madness in order to confuse and disconcert the king and his attendants.
Walley asserts that Hamlet uses his madness only in certain circumstances and in the view of certain characters, for the purpose of facilitating his revenge”. (Walley,

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