The Morality Of Music In Hamlet's Crazy By Gnarls Barkley

One of the songs on the playlist of Hamlet’s life would be Crazy by Gnarls Barkley. Throughout the duration of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet’s sanity is constantly in question. Is he crazy or is he just acting crazy? This song also questions what crazy is and can easily be related to Hamlet’s mental state. In the song, the lyrics, “I remember when I lost my mind/There was something so pleasant about that place” can be related to Hamlet looking back on different things that he has done to where Hamlet is at the end of the play. When Hamlet begins to lose his own mind, his father had recently been killed by Hamlet’s uncle who, then, marries his mother. A ghost appears to Hamlet, who seems to be King Hamlet, and relays this information along with asking him to kill Claudius. This is the beginning of Hamlet’s mental decline. With this new and shocking information, he needs to come up with a plan. The lyrics, “But it wasn 't because I …show more content…
This song represents Hamlet’s relationship with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are supposing to be Hamlet’s childhood friends. However, once Claudius begins to question Hamlet’s sanity and believes that something may be up with him, he sends these friends to look out for, or spy, on Hamlet. In the song, the lyrics say how the friend stabs him in the back. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not being loyal to their friend, but loyal to the king. The lyrics, “They smile in your face/ All the time they want to take your place/ the back stabbers” show how the friends would be kind to Hamlet to his face. In act II, scene II, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern visit Hamlet and try to convince him that it is just because they are friends who want to catch up. Hamlet sees right through the lie and believes that King Claudius has something to do with it. He is annoyed with his so-called friends and how they have an ulterior motive to their