Hamlet Mousetrap Hamlet Analysis

Hamlet! What a psycho, right? When hearing others talk about the famous Hamlet, you tend to make this reputation of such a character. In this instance, “psycho” isn’t such a deranged word to use. Hamlet shows multiple symptoms of an actual mental illness, called psychosis throughout the play. For example, he shows symptoms of thoughts of suicide, inappropriate behavior, hallucinations, social withdrawal, and aggression. Now, for a better understanding, psychosis affects the mind where someone has some sort of loss with reality. Psychosis can be caused by a traumatic event, such as that of your father being killed by your Uncle, and concluding with the marriage of your mother and your father’s murderer. If that traumatic event seemed a little too specific, it is because it actually …show more content…
What do you call the play?
Hamlet. “The Mousetrap.” Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Gonzago is the duke’s name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. ’Tis a knavish piece of work, but what of that? Your Majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the galled jade wince;our withers are unwrung.” (III.ii.223-245)
While in the midst of his play, the King comes to discomfort in knowing what he did and must find a way for the play to end before what he has done comes out. Hamlet uses inappropriate behavior by basing a play around a murder the new King had committed while acting enraged himself, in context. As just a Prince, doing this act is bold and inappropriate for his position within the castle and holds tension on the family. Not only does Hamlet show inappropriate behavior, but he shows a symptom of hallucinations. Hallucinations appear both by sense of sight and hearing for Hamlet. He sees and hears his father not only at the beginning of the play at Wittenberg, but in his mother's bedroom. He looks off to the side of his mother, begging for the presence of his father. Where then his father appears and speaks to