Consider Hamlet’s ascent into madness a roller coaster climbing up its first hill, gaining energy that is just waiting to unleash itself. Once the last car reaches its peak, the entire coaster speeds through the tracks with a whirlwind of kinetic energy and will not stop until outside forces cause it to do so. Confident within his mind, thrill-seeking Hamlet enjoys his ride with manifestation while still experiencing immense strife. Psychosis appears in Hamlet due to brief psychotic disorder, bringing with it intense hallucinations, delusions of perception and grandeur, and hyper mania through deranged speech and actions.
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While every word is meticulously crafted in his mind, there is no order or clarity seen within his spiels. Hypomania manifests itself in Hamlet through fast-paced ramblings, crazy speech and actions, and hyper sexuality. While there are too many passages of wild tangents, stories, and thoughts to mention, Hamlet’s madness and hypomania peeks out while he is waiting to view the play he ordered be performed. He showed up with many actors and demanded a show be put on, but adds in his own scene that shows almost exactly how False King Claudius assassinated King Hamlet to steal the throne. Hamlet is giddy with excitement about the play and has too much to focus on, but is not too busy to make sexual innuendos and advances towards still-sane Ophelia. Hamlet’s hypomania sometimes leads readers to believe he has bipolar disorder, but he does not appear to show all signs needed to properly make this diagnosis. The extreme depressive episode needed for classification purposes for bipolar type I or II does not manifest itself within the play. The brief periods of sadness Hamlet endures are both part of the grieving process and a symptom of psychosis. Thoughts of suicide seem to cross his mind at times, and this is also sometimes a symptom viewed in people with psychosis. Readers would need a full written work about Hamlet pre-father’s death to decide if he is truly insane or if his actions are because of brief psychotic disorder. This form of psychosis manifests after an extremely stressful and tolling event, such as one’s father being poisoned and murderer uncle becoming their
Mental illnesses may be present for years without awareness, and life-changing experiences can cause symptoms to become …show more content…
While every word is meticulously crafted in his mind, there is no order or clarity seen within his spiels. Hypomania manifests itself in Hamlet through fast-paced ramblings, crazy speech and actions, and hyper sexuality. While there are too many passages of wild tangents, stories, and thoughts to mention, Hamlet’s madness and hypomania peeks out while he is waiting to view the play he ordered be performed. He showed up with many actors and demanded a show be put on, but adds in his own scene that shows almost exactly how False King Claudius assassinated King Hamlet to steal the throne. Hamlet is giddy with excitement about the play and has too much to focus on, but is not too busy to make sexual innuendos and advances towards still-sane Ophelia. Hamlet’s hypomania sometimes leads readers to believe he has bipolar disorder, but he does not appear to show all signs needed to properly make this diagnosis. The extreme depressive episode needed for classification purposes for bipolar type I or II does not manifest itself within the play. The brief periods of sadness Hamlet endures are both part of the grieving process and a symptom of psychosis. Thoughts of suicide seem to cross his mind at times, and this is also sometimes a symptom viewed in people with psychosis. Readers would need a full written work about Hamlet pre-father’s death to decide if he is truly insane or if his actions are because of brief psychotic disorder. This form of psychosis manifests after an extremely stressful and tolling event, such as one’s father being poisoned and murderer uncle becoming their