Similarities Between Hamlet And Ophelia's Madnesses

The interesting contrast between Ophelia’s and Prince Hamlet’s madness comes from Shakespeare’s ability in presenting the mental illness. Shakespeare uses Prince Hamlet’s ambiguous characterization to drive the plot of Hamlet; while Shakespeare clearly divulges to Ophelia’s being mad, at the hands of King Hamlet and Polonius, he presents Prince Hamlet’s characterization with more subtlety as to whether Hamlet only feigns his entire madness or actually succumbs to to a mental breakdown.

At this point of the play, Ophelia is completely insane. First Hamlet’s madness gives her a strong impact, she thinks it’s all her fault to lead Hamlet become like that. She suffered a lot because of that, she loves Hamlet so much. She has no idea Hamlet is just using her to revenge, and she actually helps Hamlet do the revenge. The thing leads to her madness is her father’s death. Polonius is killed by Hamlet, one is her father, and one is her loved people. She doesn’t have any ways to change it or helps anyone. In such despair, she chooses to end her life.

What drives Hamlet to his madness? How does it relate to Ophelia’s madness? Are Hamlet and Ophelia both truly mad? These are some questions that I contemplated as I read Hamlet. The main character, Hamlet feigns madness after learning of his father’s murder; however, he becomes mad later on in the play. Is it possible that Hamlet became so wrapped up in his father’s murder that he was unable to distinguish fantasy from reality?

From the beginning of time till present day, there has been a variety of different plays, which illustrate that one 's actions and sayings can explicit pathos towards humans in one way or another. In William Shakespeare Hamlet, the tragic hero goes through severe pain as he listens to his father and tries to fulfill his task, however, he constantly fails due to his conceiving and excessive thoughts. Moreover, Ophelia goes through severe pain as she listens to both her family and Hamlet, who she loves, which subsequently leads to her tragedy, in result to her unselfish affections towards men. Similarly, the actions and beliefs for both characters result to their deaths, which evokes deep sadness and extreme emotions throughout the play overall.

Hamlet is one of the best of Shakespeare’s plays. The ability to compose speeches and

...mlet kills Polonious is the only scene in which Hamlet experiences senseless, or otherwise normal, madness. Ophelia's madness, as past described is total loss of her grip reality and sanity, leading to the adaptation of her ending schizophrenic condition.

In this research I will discuss madness in Shakespeare's plays ; Hamlet , King Lear , and Macbeth. throughout those three tragedies we meet with kinds of madness, what the real reasons that push the heroes to be mad . Is Ophelia in Hamlet became mad because of the death of her father or Hamlet's deny of her love ?. Is Ophelia really mad or she suffered from mania mitis resulting from her social's stress?. In King Lear , he is the most dangerous type of mental disorder, the madness of Lear resulting from that he is old age. His senility led him blindly to deconstruct the justice of heaven ; he distributed his kingdom just between two daughters. He judged how his daughters loves him with their speech not with their actions, and that not acceptable

The idea of madness portrayed by Hamlet and Ophelia is a perfect example of the changes that occur after certain traumatic situations. Hamlet’s actions throughout the play are a direct reaction towards the trauma earlier in the play. Ophelia and her ending in life is the ultimate price of madness. Both Hamlet and Ophelia were not the only two people in this play that had gone mad. In the end, the whole cast had gone mad.

Sane Hamlet and Mad Ophelia In Hamlet, Shakespeare incorporates a theme of madness with two characters: one truly mad, and one only acting mad to serve a motive. The madness of Hamlet is frequently disputed. This paper argues that the contrapuntal character in the play, namely Ophelia, acts as a balancing argument to the other character's madness or sanity.

The idea of madness is common among many literary pieces, including 1 Samuel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Odyssey and Hamlet in which feigning madness portrays the sanity of the characters. The play, “Hamlet,” by playwright William Shakespeare, demonstrates the tragic story of the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, who may or may not be insane. His overall change in behaviour was caused due to the murder of his late father, King Hamlet, by his uncle who is the current king and his mother’s second husband, King Claudius. Ophelia’s lack of affection and attention also affected his sanity. Throughout the play, Hamlet puts on an act to be mad around certain people to show that he is not a threat and to demonstrate his capability to elaborate and execute