hamlet

The Shakespearean play, Hamlet, illustrates how perfectly organized plan can work precisely throughout the process but end up being a complete failure. The main Character, Hamlet, manifests his feeling through a behavior that was considered as madness. After meeting his father´s ghost, Hamlet shows signals of madness, but moreover, in deeper reflection of Hamlet´s action, his sanity is extremely clear throughout the play. Even though he was considered as insane by most of the people, we acknowledge his statement warning Horatio of a possible change in his behavior by putting “an antic disposition on”, which certainly ratifies, in addition with the manner with which he acts when he faces difficult events, that he wasn’t mad at all.

It is important to point out that the reason why Hamlet acted this way is because of his father´s tragic death. This points out as well, that perhaps he wanted to act in such way as a result of his desire to confuse the king and be able to express some of his anger feelings against the king while he is considered mad.

As said before, part of his faked madness took place perhaps as a plan for confusing the king, When he speaks to Horatio after meeting the ghost, he states: "How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,/ As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on..." (I.5.170-175). Even though this strategy could be debated, we all know one thing, only a sane man could devise such a well-organized plan or idea. Hamlet´s plan to fake insanity lets him express his feelings, make new plans, and obtain information, in order to eventually kill Claudius, and of course the people wouldn’t take his actions seriously. In the play, he widely proves this when he expresses sexual comments to...

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...mlet to England in order to kill him certainly illustrates us that Claudius is aware of Hamlet´s knowledge regarding his father´s murder. Perhaps because of the play, or perhaps other reason, but this ratifies that Claudius doesn’t believe in Hamlet´s madness. So why should we?

Finally, undeniable evidence of Hamlet rational ability is shown in the comparison with a truly insane individual, just as Ophelia became mad after her father died. She began singing and talking nonsense words; "half sense: her speech is nothing" (IV. 5. 7). While Ophelia truly went mad, Hamlet conducts a rational progression in all his actions and words throughout the play. In conclusion, even though there are several different opinions that assure that many scenes show signs of Hamlet's madness, when you look closer at the textual evidence, is really unlikely that Hamlet truly went mad.