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What Is Hamlet's Sanity

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The debate of whether Hamlet, from the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare is mad or not has waged for centuries with great scholars such as Nietzsche and Goethe writing in-depth papers about their analysis of Hamlet’s sanity. Hamlet, like many, desire innocence and a world without knowledge. The unnatural death of his father, the King, causes an imbalance in nature and experience to spread. Hamlet must be the one to set things right and assume responsibly of the kingdom and experience. This knowledge of true experience of the world causes Hamlet to descend into madness.
The inability for Hamlet to cope with the fact that his father is dead leads Hamlet to debate suicide. In the quote, “ Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,/Thaw, …show more content…

The betrayal of his mother was the one that hurt him the most. “O most wicked speed, to post./With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (1.2 156-157) Hamlet believed that his mother’s and father’s relationship was perfect, but he sees that that was not the case because his mother remarried after only two months. This disturbs him and he loses his trust in women. He takes out his anger of his mother on the other woman in his life, Ophelia, his female friend. “I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God has given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance.” (3.1 144-148) His words speak that all women are deceitful and contaminated with experience. Ophelia feels the full brunt of the attack when the anger is more meant for his mother. Hamlet trusted few with his secrets and most who know these secrets betray his confidence. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were Hamlet’s former schoolmates, and Hamlet entrusted them with the secret that he indeed was not mad. Although they do not betray him at first, they end up agreeing to bring him to death in England. The trust in humanity is lost by the betrayals of close friends and

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