“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” (2.2.223-224). William Shakespeare’s Hamlet perfectly conveys everything from madness to betrayal. Shakespeare's play follows Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, through all of his woes that lead to his insanity. Hamlet is about revenge, justice, fate, and so much more. Hamlet sums up how love and deranged situations affect people's sanity. Hamlet’s insanity is illustrated by the fact that his family life is crumbling down, he has a newfound disregard for his life, he has been disrespecting the people that he loves the most, and Hamlet has been making rash and violent decisions.
Hamlet’s life is falling apart. With the death of his father and his mother, Queen Gertrude, marrying his uncle, King Claudius, to Hamlet it seems like the bad outweighs …show more content…
The first example of Hamlet’s madness appears in act 1 scene 2 when Hamlet says, “ O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,/ Or that the Everlasting had not fixed/ His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God, God/ How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable/ Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (1.2.133-138). This quote shows the inception of Hamlet’s many suicidal thoughts and how, without his father, Hamlet seems to think that his life has no purpose anymore. Which is where Ophelia comes in. She brings purpose to Hamlet’s dull life, which is why he was so devastated when Polonius makes her end their relationship. He was throwing all of his pent-up energy into trying to woo Ophelia, and the one thing that was distracting him from his difficulties gets taken away from him. Which is yet another cause for his insanity in and of itself. Furthermore, Hamlet finding out that Claudius killed his father becomes the plot for the book and one of many causes for Hamlet’s insanity. The ghost of Hamlet’s father says, “ Brief
Hamlet’s life is falling apart. With the death of his father and his mother, Queen Gertrude, marrying his uncle, King Claudius, to Hamlet it seems like the bad outweighs …show more content…
The first example of Hamlet’s madness appears in act 1 scene 2 when Hamlet says, “ O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,/ Or that the Everlasting had not fixed/ His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God, God/ How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable/ Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (1.2.133-138). This quote shows the inception of Hamlet’s many suicidal thoughts and how, without his father, Hamlet seems to think that his life has no purpose anymore. Which is where Ophelia comes in. She brings purpose to Hamlet’s dull life, which is why he was so devastated when Polonius makes her end their relationship. He was throwing all of his pent-up energy into trying to woo Ophelia, and the one thing that was distracting him from his difficulties gets taken away from him. Which is yet another cause for his insanity in and of itself. Furthermore, Hamlet finding out that Claudius killed his father becomes the plot for the book and one of many causes for Hamlet’s insanity. The ghost of Hamlet’s father says, “ Brief