Hamlet’s madness: Is Hamlet mad or is he actually mad?
After reading through three versions of Hamlet, such as, The Folio, The Second Quarto and The First Quarto; I found that Hamlet’s madness is questionable. Hamlet naturally reacts to events that occur to him. He isn’t figuratively mad; he is literally upset about what is revolving around his life. In other words, he isn’t crazy, he is angry and these two emotions are completely different. Several scholarly articles and parts from Hamlet show that this is a fact. In all three versions of Hamlet there are scenes that prove of Hamlet’s anger. Hamlet is upset about his father’s death, he’s in shock that he saw his father’s ghost or spirit, his mother moving on to his uncle, his friends spying …show more content…
As Hamlet is the main character of the play, his personality and stage of mind matters very much. Everything that he does controls what goes on in the play if you really think about it. Claudius tries to send Hamlet’s own best friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to check on Hamlet and his madness in (2.2.10230) “The need we have to use you did provoke Our hasty sending.” This shows that not only does Hamlet’s “madness” or actions controls what he does, but what others do towards …show more content…
Gertrude and Claudius have married one another and this takes on a big change in Hamlets life. To do this after his father’s recent death is quite careless. Hamlet goes mad at after they bring such news to him after he speaks and sees his father’s spirit with his own eyes. He slowly plans revenge because of what is said to him by his father, to (1.5.710) “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” This gives Hamlet’s readers pinion of him just being mad and not seeing the other side of things. Hamlet had a task for his father, and felt like it was the right thing to
After reading through three versions of Hamlet, such as, The Folio, The Second Quarto and The First Quarto; I found that Hamlet’s madness is questionable. Hamlet naturally reacts to events that occur to him. He isn’t figuratively mad; he is literally upset about what is revolving around his life. In other words, he isn’t crazy, he is angry and these two emotions are completely different. Several scholarly articles and parts from Hamlet show that this is a fact. In all three versions of Hamlet there are scenes that prove of Hamlet’s anger. Hamlet is upset about his father’s death, he’s in shock that he saw his father’s ghost or spirit, his mother moving on to his uncle, his friends spying …show more content…
As Hamlet is the main character of the play, his personality and stage of mind matters very much. Everything that he does controls what goes on in the play if you really think about it. Claudius tries to send Hamlet’s own best friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to check on Hamlet and his madness in (2.2.10230) “The need we have to use you did provoke Our hasty sending.” This shows that not only does Hamlet’s “madness” or actions controls what he does, but what others do towards …show more content…
Gertrude and Claudius have married one another and this takes on a big change in Hamlets life. To do this after his father’s recent death is quite careless. Hamlet goes mad at after they bring such news to him after he speaks and sees his father’s spirit with his own eyes. He slowly plans revenge because of what is said to him by his father, to (1.5.710) “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” This gives Hamlet’s readers pinion of him just being mad and not seeing the other side of things. Hamlet had a task for his father, and felt like it was the right thing to