The Importance Of Heroism In Hamlet

Register to read the introduction… He frightens Ophelia, speaks in riddles to Polonius, and walks around the castle with no apparent purpose. His mother gets so worried that she sends for his friends to come. She hoped they could figure out what was wrong with him. Hamlet is putting on a good show to distract everyone from the real problem. Upon meeting his friends Hamlet makes them admit the true reason they have come to Denmark. He tells them, “You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour:” (II. ii. 263-264). His ability to read his friends suggests that Hamlet has a very observant understanding of his surroundings. How is Hamlet insane if he has the presence of mind to read others and toy with them to get what he wants out of them? No one could torture others with word as well as Hamlet does without having a wide range of knowledge and skill. He is too precise in his every action to be truly mad. When he refrains from killing Claudius after reasoning “That would be scann’d; A villain kills my father; and for that, I his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven,” (III. iii. 76-78) he shows judgment that a mad revenge driven character would not …show more content…
Laertes, who is angry that he has lost both passes, cuts Hamlet, eager to make him pay for what he did to his father. Laertes’s rash action angers Hamlet, who then takes Laertes’s own sword and cuts him with it. Around this time Gertrude falls from her seat and Hamlet goes to her. She tells him, “The drink, the drink! I am poison’d,” (V. ii. 282), then she died. Hamlet immediately in a furry demands, “ O villany! Ho! Let the door be lock’d: Treachery! Seek it out,” (V. ii. 283-284). Laertes tells Hamlet it is Claudius and himself, them informs Hamlet of his fatal wound. Hamlet immediately kills Claudius telling him “ Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink of this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother,” (V. ii. 297-299). Then he returns to reconcile with Laertes who then dies. Hamlet then shows his sanity in his dying actions when he tells Horatio, his true friend, to explain to the people what had happened and clear his name. Then finally after achieving his goals Hamlet dies. Hamlet seemed to be a sane man with the knowledge to make everyone think he was insane. He showed his sanity through his ability to control himself and make reasonable decisions even when faced with great