Antic Disposition Of Hamlet
The obsession of revenge can kill a person from the inside. Corruption and no escape can be some results. In The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, Hamlet finds himself with a tough decision to make. When the death of his father King Hamlet occurs, Hamlet has suspicions about his father’s death. After seeing the ghost of his father and knowing the truth of how he died, Hamlet has the right to accuse Claudius of murdering his father. Having lost his father and his mother quickly remarrying Claudius, Hamlet becomes suicidal, a procrastinator and puts on an antic disposition. Going through bad experiences throughout life in a short period of time can be overwhelming. For Hamlet, it leads to considering suicide. As Hamlet
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He will act crazy around everyone so people especially Claudius will not suspect anything and will only think that the death of his father made Hamlet crazy. After seeing the ghost of his father Hamlet tells his best friend Horatio “… But come./ Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,/ How strange or odd some’er I bear myself (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/ To put an antic disposition on)” (I.v.188-192). Meaning that he will actually act a little crazy in the near future and as much as he needs to but his friend will have to be there for him. His craziness did not just affect Claudius but also his girlfriend Ophelia. Hamlet appears in her room acting crazy and after Ophelia tells her father “My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,/ Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,/ No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,/ Ungarted, and down-gyvèd to his ankle,/ Pale as is shirt…” (II.i.87-91). Hamlet might have actually faked been crazy or not. Having to make a plan fast as part of his revenge he could have gone further then what he planned. Through the middle of the play King Claudius already believes that “There’s something in his soul/ O’er which his melancholy sits on brood,/ And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose/ Will be some danger…” (III.i.178-181). Claudius knows Hamlet became crazy because of his depression and that the prince will be of some danger. Hamlet had suffered depressions. His melancholy state from loosing his father and his mother to his uncle started his insanity even though he was planning to be crazy he could have started to feel that way in the
He will act crazy around everyone so people especially Claudius will not suspect anything and will only think that the death of his father made Hamlet crazy. After seeing the ghost of his father Hamlet tells his best friend Horatio “… But come./ Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,/ How strange or odd some’er I bear myself (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/ To put an antic disposition on)” (I.v.188-192). Meaning that he will actually act a little crazy in the near future and as much as he needs to but his friend will have to be there for him. His craziness did not just affect Claudius but also his girlfriend Ophelia. Hamlet appears in her room acting crazy and after Ophelia tells her father “My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,/ Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,/ No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,/ Ungarted, and down-gyvèd to his ankle,/ Pale as is shirt…” (II.i.87-91). Hamlet might have actually faked been crazy or not. Having to make a plan fast as part of his revenge he could have gone further then what he planned. Through the middle of the play King Claudius already believes that “There’s something in his soul/ O’er which his melancholy sits on brood,/ And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose/ Will be some danger…” (III.i.178-181). Claudius knows Hamlet became crazy because of his depression and that the prince will be of some danger. Hamlet had suffered depressions. His melancholy state from loosing his father and his mother to his uncle started his insanity even though he was planning to be crazy he could have started to feel that way in the