People sometimes go through hard times. When this happens they usually go into a state of depression and/or have other negative symptoms that lead to negative effects. Some people get depressed while others just go into some form of madness. Imagine that a person were claiming to be insane. Then people would think that this person is actually crazy. But what if acting insane for them was like acting normal. Hamlet is one of those plays written by Shakespeare. The story takes place in Denmark. Prince Hamlet is the son of King Hamlet who was murdered by his brother Claudius. Then Hamlet meets his father's ghost and the ghost tells him the real story of how he died. The ghost then tells Crazy Hamlet to get revenge for him. Should he believe the …show more content…
When his father died he pretended to go insane because he wanted to know if what the old Kings ghost said was true or not. Eventually, Hamlet slips into one form of insanity when he talks to Ophelia. But there are parts of the story that prove Silly Hamlet as being sane. All throughout the play Hamlet pretends to be insane except when he is alone. He talks in verse when he is sane which all the beginning of the lines of a play are capitalized. Hamlet talks in prose too,and this is when the first letter in every line is not capitalized. For example, when hamlet talks to the king he talks in prose so he is pretending to be mad. When he is alone he talks in verse. "The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." He is not actually insane he is just pretending. Hamlet also uses duty ethics. This means he has a duty and obligation to find out what really happened to his father. Hamlet is trying to believe the ghost that looks like his …show more content…
Existentialism is the questioning of life and death. Hamlet does not know whether to live or to die. He gives a soliloquy and questions himself asking if it is better to live or to be dead. This soliloquy is called "To be or not to be." Here he says that if he lives and keeps on living the life he is living right now he will not be happy. Hamlet thinks that if he dies he will go to a better place, but then the fear comes to him. What if that place is worse than what he is living right now. Hamlet cannot be for sure that if he kills himself that he will go to a better place. That is why he does not know what to do. Then Hamlet finds out what the King did to his father was true and looks for a way to revenge. Hamlet makes an allusion talking about Hyperion and satyr. This allusion affects the understanding of the tragedy because it shows how noble Hamlet's dad was compared to Hamlet's uncle. This allusion changes the way that the play is because it gives an idea of how the two brothers are and were. One is godlike (Hyperion) and the other is a drunkard and lustful man. The only reason why this allusion was involved in the play was to give more understanding of the brothers and to show how Hamlet feel towards each of them. He shows that he knows a lot about each of them. The New King wanted to be with the queen and he also wanted the crown. Claudius killed Hamlet's father for his own
He is mentally disturbed by the thought of his uncle killing his father to the point where he loses touch with sanity. Hamlet is a tragedy that will never have a straightforward answer as to if he faked being crazy or not. My belief is that Hamlet had in fact lost touch with reality. The slow decline of his mental health throughout lead me to believe he did go crazy, even if he might have been faking it at first. After seeing his father’s ghost, I believe he started acting like he had lost his mind to blame his future actions on the fact that he was crazy. I also believe he truly did lose his mind shortly after when he found out about Claudius murdering his
In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet the main character Hamlet experiences many different and puzzling emotions. He toys with the idea of killing himself and then plays with the idea of murdering others. Many people ask themselves who or what is this man and what is going on inside his head. The most common question asked about him is whether or not he is sane or insane. Although the door seems to swing both ways many see him as a sane person with one thought on his mind, and that is revenge. The first point of his sanity is while speaking with Horatio in the beginning of the play, secondly is the fact of his wittiness with the other characters and finally, his soliloquy.
Riddled with ambiguity by its very nature, the text of William Shakespeare's Hamlet has been a commonly debated subject in literary circles since its first performance. The character Hamlet undergoes intense physical and emotional hardship in his quest for revenge against his despicable uncle. This hardship, some argue, leads to an emotional breakdown and, ultimately, Hamlet's insanity. While this assessment may be suitable in some cases, it falls short in others. Since Hamlet is a play, the ultimate motivation of each of the characters borrows not only from the text, but also from the motivations of the actors playing the parts. In most respects, these motivations are more apt at discerning the emotional condition of a character than their dialogue ever could. Thus, the question is derived: In Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet, does the character Hamlet suffer from insanity? Giving halt to the response, this paper will first endeavor to establish what insanity is and will then provide sufficient examples both from the text, film, and Branagh's own musings on his motivations as proof that Hamlet's character, at least in Branagh's version of the play, is not insane.
‘ “To be or not to be” -- “that is the...” soliloquy. “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to...” agree, the question that no one knows. To think, to know, to know perchance to understand, the truth behind it all... ’ Was it, or was it not true that Hamlet was faking his insanity, really suffering, or perhaps even both. First, this is what insanity is; insanity is acting peculiar, but not knowing that they are. Also, it is going through a lot of stresses at the same time causing you to not think straight. Hamlet was not completely suffering from insanity. It wouldn’t make sense.
Justification of Hamlet's Sanity in Shakespeare's Hamlet Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" is about a complex protagonist, Hamlet, who faces adversity and is destined to murder the individual who killed his father. Hamlet is a character who although his actions and emotions may be one of an insane person, in the beginning of the book it is clear that Hamlet decides to fake madness in order for his plan to succeed in killing Claudius. Hamlet is sane because throughout the play he only acts crazy in front of certain people, to others he acts properly and displays proper prince like behavior who is able to cope with them without sounding crazy, and even after everything that has been going on in his life he is able to take revenge by killing his father's murderer. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is sane but acts insane to fulfill his destiny of getting vengeance on his father's murderer. We can see this when he talks to Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia, and his mother.
In Hamlet, he seems to be mad, but there is a question that everyone asks when reading or watching this play “was it, or was it not true that Hamlet was faking his insanity, really suffering, or maybe even both.” First, this is what insanity is: insanity is acting crazy, but not knowing that they’re acting crazy. Also, it’s going through a lot of stress at the same time causing you to act stranger then a normal person. Hamlet was not totally insane. It doesn’t fit.
Hamlet throughout the play seems insane but in reality it is only an act to achieve his goal of killing his father's murderer. Hamlet chooses to go mad so he has an advantage over his opponent and since he is the Prince of Denmark certain behavior is unacceptable, so by faking madness he is able to get away with inappropriate sayings and actions. We can see this when he talks to Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia and his mother. When Hamlet talks to Horatio in the first act he says how he is going to "feign madness" and that:
Throughout the play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the unclear representation of the protagonist’s actions is present. The protagonist, Hamlet, conducts the idea that he is turning mad. Although, there are many indications which support that this so-called “madness” is part of an act that Hamlet portrays. The other characters within the play try to understand the reasoning behind Hamlet’s madness, but cannot figure out the truth behind it. The main cause of Hamlet’s madness is the realization of his father’s death and the numerous influences his father’s death has on his life. Hamlet can control his actions of madness and specifically acts differently around certain characters. The characters who are more concerned
As the reader, we are to know that Hamlet is only acting crazy so that when he kills Claudius his insanity can be to blame. Also, when Hamlet talks to the actors that will perform the play about his father's death, he acts completely crazy. He says bizarre things and acts not like himself when he is in front of everyone. To the characters they only see him being crazy, but as the reader we see Hamlet talking to Horatio making complete sense. We know that Hamlet was just pretending because he could act crazy then completely know what was going on around him with in the next minute.
People in today's society are under pressure by parents and other people that often leads to stress. Teens can already be under lots of stress with other things and parents can make it much worse. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, he is under stress by his mother's early remarriage after his father's death. Throughout the play, Hamlet is either sane, insane, or temporarily insane. Claudius was in the wrong for not only killing Hamlet’s father, but then for marrying his mother shortly after.
When a person talks about literature the name Hamlet always comes in play because Shakespeare's Hamlet is one of the most remarkable characters that passed through English literature. The story Hamlet is outstanding because Shakespeare portrays Hamlet and all the other characters acquainted in the book beautifully. He also understood different perspective of human behaviors and involves many aspects of life like morality and sanity. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet he shows Hamlet as a smart person and through all his troubles he becomes a mad man, however, in doing so his mood and behavior begins to negatively change, is his madness real or is he just acting to fool the others.
Madness is a condition that is difficult to distinguish between true and false. As in the encounter of the ghost of Hamlet 's father with Hamlet, Hamlet is asked to avenge his father 's death. To accomplish this task in a less apparent manner, Hamlet decides to feign madness. In the long run, Hamlet truly does go insane. Consequently, his behavior thereafter is frequently unfathomable. William Shakespeare, the writer of the tragic play, Hamlet, leaves Hamlet 's sanity up to interpretation. Throughout Shakespeare 's Hamlet, Hamlet 's questionable madness is explored through his real madness, feigned actions, and the reactions of others towards his madness.
Hamlet appears to be a rather philosophical character. He is skeptical and expresses views that nowadays can be described as existential and relativist, but those terms did not exist in Shakespeare’s time. Existentialism analyzes existence and the way humans appear to exist in this world. It is concerned with the individual; finding oneself and finding a meaning to life by one’s own measures.That is exactly what Hamlet is going through. Presented with the jarring conflict of avenging his father’s death, Hamlet finds his meaning to life shortly before dying himself among others tangled in this mess. He was tasked by the ghost of his father to kill Claudius in an act of vengeance, which would be considered noble (though in this case, it is a regicide avenging a regicide; treason for treason). The ideals of society demand that he...
Hamlet was one of the main characters in the story. Hamlet is thoughtful and philosophical, because of Hamlet action, and soliloquy that happened when Claudius was praying to God for the “primal eldest curse” (3.3.37-38). Hamlet could have been killed Claudius at the time that he was praying. If the King was dead after confessing his sin;then, Claudius would surely wn to heaven. However, Hamlet did not want the King to go to heaven; due when Claudius killed King Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear without giving ghost daddy the chance to pray, and, therefore, King Hamlet must suffer through the punishment of eternal fire.
The tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare is about Hamlet going insane and reveals his madness through his actions and dialogue. Hamlet remains one of the most discussed literary characters of all time. This is most likely due to the complex nature of Hamlet as a character. In one scene, Hamlet appears happy, and then he is angry in another and melancholy in the next. Hamlet’s madness is a result of his father’s death which was supposedly by the hands of his uncle, Claudius. He has also discovered that this same uncle is marrying his mom. It is expected that Hamlet would be suffering from some emotional issues as result of these catastrophes. Shakespeare uses vivid language, metaphors, and imagery to highlight how Hamlet’s madness influences several important aspects of his life including his relationships and the way he presents himself.