In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, an obvious topic to discuss would be that of Hamlet's sanity. To some people Hamlet simply seems mad or angry, but others argue that he is truly mad, in the sense of mad. At first Hamlet wants people to have the impression that he has gone mad so that they will not suspect his plan for revenge. The question is: does he get too close to madness and doesn't realize that he actually becomes mad, or is he so intelligent and able to control himself enough to allow his acting madman to be just a disguise to carry out his revenge plan. ? Throughout the play Hamlet's character becomes confused and there is a huge question mark asking if he is mad or is he mad? In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, madness is a key element of the story. Hamlet is the prince of Denmark and has returned from college to find that his father has died. Of course she would be sad about her father's death, but soon after that sadness will turn to anger when she learns that her mother will get married to her uncle Claudius just two months after her father's death. Hamlet then falls into the grieving process where he begins to isolate himself from the people living inside the castle. He begins to spend most of his time alone, but when the people of the castle see him, he normally walks alone and talks to himself. From an outsider's perspective, one might assume that Hamlet is going mad. What the outsider may not know is that Hamlet had a life changing experience, the ghost of his father came to him and told/showed him how Hamlet's father died. His father didn't just die, in fact he was murdered. The breaking point for Hamlet regarding the murder of his father was that Claudius, the new... middle of paper... lord of his uncle and his mother, has bothered me with love in an honorable way... and He has given me face to his speech, my lord, with almost all the holy vows of heaven” (I.iii.111-115). As Hamlet's madness progresses, his actions and feelings towards Ophelia falter. He rejects Ophelia and tells her that he never loved her, but when he argues with Laertes at Ophelia's grave, Hamlet states: "Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their amount of love, do my sum" (Vi250-253) . Because of his drastic changes in character, Hamlet gives the reader the illusion that he may have schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychotic illness, the person suffering from schizophrenia will usually seem out of touch with reality, have unbalanced thoughts, separate from society and may be angry, aggressive, irritable, violent and may even have an obsession with death..
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