The Use Of Madness In Hamlet And Almereyda

In Almereyda, Hamlet (2000) film and Branagh’s Hamlet film, they use the use of camera and the use of music to capture Hamlets showing Hamlets madness and a mix of emotions and revenge when he found out who had killed his father. Hamlet’s madness began when the ghost who portrayed to be his father who once was the king revealed that he was murdered. He was murdered by Hamlets father’s brother Claudius, who is now Hamlets mothers’ husband and also the king.Hamlet decided to pretend his madness in a way so that he could cover his evil actions he had in place for Claudius. But also he decides to pretend his madness to really gather information and figure out if the ghost was actually telling him the truth about who killed his father. Hamlet says he is going to “feign madness” (1.5.166-180). His madness leads him to portray an emotional condition, mystery and a great amount of dialogue throughout the play and both films. Horatio was in charge of studying all Hamlets actions disregarding whether or not what the ghost had told him was true. Hamlet also showed madness when Ophelia had set him up or when the king wanted to send Hamlet to England for his execution, and more importantly at Ophelia’s grave. But this madness was only the beginning of his revenge

According to Yu Jin Ko “Hamlet 's videos tell this story. Inter spliced throughout the film are video diaries that Almereyda encouraged Ethan Hawke to produce on his own with a Pixel vision 2000 camera. They include not only close-ups of himself delivering soliloquies but also fleeting images of the figures who are (or were) the emotional mainstays of his world: Ophelia, peeking out from behind a copy of the Eastern spiritualist work On Living and Dying, his mother and father in happier times, with his mother "hang[ing] on him" (1.2.143) in