Analysis Of Hamlet State Of Mind

“Hamlet State of Mind”

From the beginning of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, most of the action involves is cerebral. The play is confine to Hamlet’s thoughts on his life in court. Stemming a questionable situation, as one can never be sure about Hamlet’s insanity is actual or artificial. This is mainly contributed by Hamlet’s interpretation of events being the dominating voice of the play. As the play constantly piques the audience interest to take on the obligation to validate Hamlet’s means of vengeance throughout the play whether Hamlet is loyal to his father to kill Claudius with evidence and proof, or rather he has actually gone insane to escape from the truth. This ambiguous effect in the play could alter the overall view of the play, as the former is sinning for love of his father and the latter for insanity that would deteriorate his means of revenge.

Hamlet first appearance to the play, he is sad, miserable, and hysterical, not over grieve of his dead father, but over his mother’s swift remarriage to the new king. In this scene, Hamlet does not carry himself up well throughout the scene, behaving in an adolescent boy manner that is not getting his way, reluctantly accepting his uncle’s deny on his choices for the future. However, at the presences of himself, Hamlet begins a violent expressive speech wishing he were dead, portrays the world as useless and disgusting. His attitude changes dramatically, after his peers mentioned about the ghost they have seen. He is now composed, expressive and prepared of action, which is mirrored in many of his lines, “If it assume my noble father’s person, I’ll speak to it, though hell itself should gape and bid me hold my peace” (1.3. 244-246). This could be the beginning of Hamlet this bilatera...

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...right times comes he will “put an antic disposition on” (1.5.172). He patiently concocts his plans to set up a reaction on Claudius through the play-within-a-play, that would be suffice as prove in order to justify that the king did indeed kill his father as told by the Ghost. Furthermore, Hamlet seems to be able to revert from insanity immediately to hold a perfectly normal conversation to other characters. For example, instantly after arguing with Polonius over the “fishmonger” incident, he was able to hold a rational and witty conversation with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz.

Shakespeare utilizes this ambiguity of mental health, to illustrate real struggle of humans with death. The evidence that Hamlet’s ability to choose when his able to act sane and insane could be overwhelming but exists the undeniable facts that Hamlet does have a deranged perception of life.