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Hamlet's Madness and Sanity

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Hamlet is a dramatic play written by William Shakespeare between the years of 1599 and 1602. In this play, Hamlet's father, King Hamlet is dead. Claudius and Gertrude, who are Prince Hamlet's uncle and mother, prepare to take king hamlets place as the new king of Denmark. Hamlet grieves over his father death though out the play and becomes very suspicious of Claudius and Gertrude’s relationship. One day Hamlet and his friends Horatio, Marcellus and Bernard discover the ghost of the old king. The ghost tells Hamlet that his uncle killed him by pouring poison in his ear. He tells hamlet and his friends to keep their conversation a secret and demand that Hamlet gets revenge for his death. After talking to the ghost of his father, Hamlet ensures that he gets revenge for his father’s death. Hamlet becomes very angry, depressed and violent which created more conflict in the play. After losing his father, Hamlet lived a life of disappointment, betrayal, heart break and grief which strongly justifies his madness and behavior in the play. First of all, Hamlet shows his anger in a very unique way in the play. You never know what’s next with Hamlet. He would talk and respond to different situations in the play in a very sarcastic way, confusing several characters in the play and would always appear to be one step ahead for example, in act three of Hamlet Polonius and Claudius attempt to set Hamlet up by having Ophelia speak with hamlet, to prove that Hamlet was in love with Ophelia, Hamlet denied being in love with Ophelia and denies her love letters. Many readers would say that Hamlets madness in the play is not real. I suggest that Hamlets madness was very much real. I think that he would take advantage of his instinct, intelligence and way of words in order to find out information for his own good but deep inside he felt furious. Anyone who ever lost a relative close to them can deeply relate to Hamlet. Losing someone such as a father c

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