Madness In Hamlet Analysis

The significance of “madness” in Hamlet In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the main character Hamlet experiences an irrational behavior of madness throughout this piece of work. While reading this play there is a question that crosses the reader’s mind of, “Is Hamlet going crazy or is he going mad?” The reader can often wonder this because of the way Hamlet starts to act as soon as his father dies and the actions and choices he makes leads the audience to think that he isn’t normal and that even though he is going through a hardship in his life that the way he reacts still is not how a normal person would react. Throughout this play, his irrational behavior is an important role in the play because it is constantly leading …show more content…
She says that he looks like a guy from a book that is the stereotypical unrequited lover. Like he is experiencing lovesickness. It’s kind of ironic how he knows exactly how to dress to make himself look depressed. This could all be an act of him trying to make Ophelia feel guilty. He wants her to feel guilty because it will make him feel better knowing that she feels bad ,and he wants her to see him all upset so she has an idea of what he is going through and he does this by showing up with his clothes all wragged and how different he looked rather than how he would normally dress. Also the way that he reacts towards Ophelia is very aggressive and makes her wonder if Hamlet is going crazy or what is actually causing him to act this way, “He took me by the wrist and held me hard. The goes he to the length of all his arm, And, with his other hand thus o’er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stayed he so. At last, a …show more content…
At this point Hamlet has encountered so many different bad things and is trying to overcome so many obstacles in his life that he realizes that something has got to change rather it be the people he hangs out with or how the people he hangs out with treat him. In conclusion, Hamlet is just trying to find some kind of happiness and is trying to find out who he really is. The cause og Hamlet’s madness is a mixture of multiple different things such as Ophelia’s rejection, his father’s passing, his mother’s remarriage, encountering the ghost, and even just his depression alone. All of these things are putting more pressure and frustration on him. Hamlet originally could of put on act of him going crazy to see if it would make things different or make things change for the better in any way. However, Hamlet’s act of madness is what creates the story and keeps the audience on their toes as to what could happen next. Without Hamlet’s act of insanity, the play could’ve possibly ended differently in either a positive or negative