Hamlet Madness And Madness

Hamlet shows many signs he has gone completely mad. Hamlets personality has changed many different times, from melancholy to playing in between the two roles of madness and sanity. His father’s sudden death and his mother’s rushed marriage to his uncle were major factors in Hamlet’s melancholy. His melancholy changed to madness when he first met with the ghost of his father. He transfers his personality between madness and sanity but madness took over. He lost his ability to be sane and created madness all around him as well. Hamlets pure madness is a pure act that turns into his identity.
Hamlet undergoes a series of trials and troubles some that are internal and other’s that create towards a certain path that he cannot escape. Hamlet’s best destruction in this path of no return is characterized in the beginning with his uncertainty of his existence and feeling over the loss of his father’s death. Young Hamlet faces risk within his mind when his mother marries his uncle soon after the death of his father. The death of Hamlet’s father and the immediate marriage of King Claudius and Hamlets mother Gertrude was a major factor in Hamlets depression. Unable to comprehend his melancholy mood he boards on a journey of revenge when learning his father’s ghostly appearance is wandering the Castle at night restless from not finding closure in his life. This event derives from his father’s meeting and revealing the cause of his extraordinary death. Hamlet’s uncle Claudius schemed and conquered in killing his own brother in order to gain the throne and Hamlet in some obligation towards truth, anger, and revenge agrees to expose

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... Hamlet not sound truly insane. Also the way that he went from character to character abusing his insanity, being very careful going to each person, and acting this way with this, all to make everyone think he was insane. Hamlet’s madness isn’t his true identity, but his insanity is. Hamlet has caused madness all around him but he himself has become insane, not mad. Madness is "quality or condition of being insane “insanity is "relatively permanent disorder of the mind", both might seem the same, but it isn't.
Finally, the point of no return in Hamlet is also characterized within the final events of the play. Hamlet knew that his life would soon come to an end. He was well aware that the death of Claudius but within his own context of his mind he understood that his time was near. He also longed for death at the end in order to alleviate his broken heart and mind.