Hamlet And Borderline Personality Disorder In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is the main character of Williams Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In this play the king of Denmark is murdered, and the throne is taken by the murderer. Hamlet learns about this by seeing the ghost of his father in the night, and to seek revenge against the new king, Hamlet decides to act insane to gather more information and evidence against the new king. As time goes on Hamlet seems to no longer be acting insane and yet still shows many of the symptoms that he was showing before. Although Hamlet says he is only acting insane, as the play goes on and his character develops, Hamlet is no longer acting and shows true madness through different forms of behaviors. Sarcasm is an important speaking tone used by Hamlet to …show more content…
But then he gets to see his father as a ghost and learns that he was murdered by the new king Claudius. Hamlet’s brilliant plan is to act insane and mentally deranged to gather more evidence about his father’s murder to prove Claudius guilty. Only a handful of people know that he is acting, but as time goes by Hamlet’s state of mind deteriorates. Although Hamlet says he is only acting insane, evidence strongly suggests that he is not acting, but is suffering from Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality …show more content…
But Hamlet is not a perfect person and has a fatal flaw that influences the way that he acts and the way he behaves in different situations. Hamlet’s fatal flaw is his insanity. In the play Hamlet first has a plan to be insane, which leads to him actually going insane. Because of his insanity Hamlet reacts differently to situations than other people would. For example, a key showing of his insanity is when he is in his mother’s bedroom, and the ghost appears, but only for him, his mother cannot see it, showing that he is mad. Because of his insanity he saw the ghost and then reacted to what the ghost “said” to him. Another example of his insanity is his extreme mood swings. When Hamlet is alone during the play he shows a very serious depression. But while he is with others he keeps it inside and does not show other people how he is really feeling. Because of this it deteriorates his way of life, because he is not allowing himself to show others how he really feels, which is probably driving him more insane. Because of these events Hamlet has extreme mood swings, one minute he is in a major rage and is yelling at Ophelia or his mother, and the next he is very depressed and is contemplating suicide. Hamlet’s insanity is his fatal flaw, because it makes him a different person who makes irrational decisions and has extreme mood