Sanity and insanity can be either depicted as having a fine line in between them or being similar.The characters in Hamlet all take on completely different personalities. Some of them are either sane or mad, but how can you tell which are which ? Sanity is believed to be the capability to be able to know the difference between your thoughts and emotions, while insanity is when you cause yourslef to be caught your own lies, neglecting your own health and not acting rationally. The differences between the sane and mad characters are shown through their way of thinking, the way they portray their feelings, and their actions. Hamlet is one of the insane characters in the play. Although he starts off as being completely sane, he gets caught
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Her father,Polonius,and Laertes , played a big role in that. Laertes made the first comment, telling her to take care of her virginity and not to give him undeserving love. She listens and doesn’t make an argument for it.When Polonius made her end her relationship with Hamlet, she went along with it, and didn;t make arguments against it as well. Their same influences tie in with her relationship with Hamlet. She was able to see that Hamlet was changing and he was acting like a crazy man that he wasn’t before, but she never exactly looked into it herself. She knew from other people, especially her father, that he was insane. As someone who is supposedly in love with their significant other, or in Ophelia’s case, her used to be significant other, it seems like the obvious thing to actually go face to face and talk to Hamlet personally about why he is acting the way he is .Ophelia told her father about Hamlet’s srarnge behavior around her in her bedroom, and even went along with letting her father listen to a planned “private” conversation she had with Hamlet.. Hamlet knows that they are spying, and when Hamlet asks her where her father is , she says”He’s at home my Lord.”(Hamlet 3.1.132). The fact that she would lie to Hamlet when she supposeddly loves him makes him …show more content…
“She talks about her father a lot, and says she hears there are conspiracies around the world, and coughs, and beats her breast, and gets angry over tiny matters, and talks nonsense.”(Hamlet 4.5.4-7)Once her dad left , nad Hamlet was acting even more inasne, she had no one to make her decisions, and she realized she lost twopeople in her life. She began to see the light and saw things she never saw before such as whos is evil and their traits. Because she is deserted and started thinking about everything more carefully , she was becoming insane because when you become insane you kind of pick out everything carefully and come up with your own conclusions.Hamlet’s madness and Ophelia’smadness had many similarities and differences. Both Hamlet and Ophelia have experienced their father’s deaths and both have similar reactions to it, but Hamlet pretends to be mad while Ophelia actually is mad. Hamlet claims in act 2 that he will become mad in order to distract the king by not making him look like a threat to his throne and to make nobody think anything of him if he does commit murder. Everone in the kingdom
Her father,Polonius,and Laertes , played a big role in that. Laertes made the first comment, telling her to take care of her virginity and not to give him undeserving love. She listens and doesn’t make an argument for it.When Polonius made her end her relationship with Hamlet, she went along with it, and didn;t make arguments against it as well. Their same influences tie in with her relationship with Hamlet. She was able to see that Hamlet was changing and he was acting like a crazy man that he wasn’t before, but she never exactly looked into it herself. She knew from other people, especially her father, that he was insane. As someone who is supposedly in love with their significant other, or in Ophelia’s case, her used to be significant other, it seems like the obvious thing to actually go face to face and talk to Hamlet personally about why he is acting the way he is .Ophelia told her father about Hamlet’s srarnge behavior around her in her bedroom, and even went along with letting her father listen to a planned “private” conversation she had with Hamlet.. Hamlet knows that they are spying, and when Hamlet asks her where her father is , she says”He’s at home my Lord.”(Hamlet 3.1.132). The fact that she would lie to Hamlet when she supposeddly loves him makes him …show more content…
“She talks about her father a lot, and says she hears there are conspiracies around the world, and coughs, and beats her breast, and gets angry over tiny matters, and talks nonsense.”(Hamlet 4.5.4-7)Once her dad left , nad Hamlet was acting even more inasne, she had no one to make her decisions, and she realized she lost twopeople in her life. She began to see the light and saw things she never saw before such as whos is evil and their traits. Because she is deserted and started thinking about everything more carefully , she was becoming insane because when you become insane you kind of pick out everything carefully and come up with your own conclusions.Hamlet’s madness and Ophelia’smadness had many similarities and differences. Both Hamlet and Ophelia have experienced their father’s deaths and both have similar reactions to it, but Hamlet pretends to be mad while Ophelia actually is mad. Hamlet claims in act 2 that he will become mad in order to distract the king by not making him look like a threat to his throne and to make nobody think anything of him if he does commit murder. Everone in the kingdom