Examples Of Insanity In Hamlet
Hamlet’s Madness and Insanity
One of the extraordinary plays written by William Shakespeare, reflects on the feelings and personality through a character known as Hamlet. The play’s stage seems a bit desolate because of the murder of Hamlet’s father. The amount of solitariness Hamlet braves, provides a substantial amount of diverse feeling through evocative emotion. Through depression and sadness, the life of Hamlet seems unimportant to himself. Hamlet faces a series of sentiments which questions his sanity. The world of Hamlet seems to revolve around insanity; however, can the actions of Hamlet be portrayed as sane in this insane world? Could one ask themselves to be ok with the fact that their uncle murdered their father only to then marry their mother and be crowned as king? As explained by Lily Campbell, “Hamlet becomes a study in the passion of grief” (Campbell, 94). This is a great example of what became of Hamlet. Due to the grief he bore from his father’s death, it consumed him into madness. This proves the insanity of Hamlet by giving the impression that his ideology was corrupt. Hamlet also exemplified hysteria through the meeting of his father’s spirit. In Act II, Hamlet stated (Act II, Scene II):
The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.
Through this excerpt, Hamlet discusses the meeting of his father’s ghost. He is unsure of what his father’s …show more content…
It was very apparent that they worried about his well-being. One of Hamlet’s close friends, Horatio, stated (Act I, Scene II):
What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o’er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason, And draw you into
One of the extraordinary plays written by William Shakespeare, reflects on the feelings and personality through a character known as Hamlet. The play’s stage seems a bit desolate because of the murder of Hamlet’s father. The amount of solitariness Hamlet braves, provides a substantial amount of diverse feeling through evocative emotion. Through depression and sadness, the life of Hamlet seems unimportant to himself. Hamlet faces a series of sentiments which questions his sanity. The world of Hamlet seems to revolve around insanity; however, can the actions of Hamlet be portrayed as sane in this insane world? Could one ask themselves to be ok with the fact that their uncle murdered their father only to then marry their mother and be crowned as king? As explained by Lily Campbell, “Hamlet becomes a study in the passion of grief” (Campbell, 94). This is a great example of what became of Hamlet. Due to the grief he bore from his father’s death, it consumed him into madness. This proves the insanity of Hamlet by giving the impression that his ideology was corrupt. Hamlet also exemplified hysteria through the meeting of his father’s spirit. In Act II, Hamlet stated (Act II, Scene II):
The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.
Through this excerpt, Hamlet discusses the meeting of his father’s ghost. He is unsure of what his father’s …show more content…
It was very apparent that they worried about his well-being. One of Hamlet’s close friends, Horatio, stated (Act I, Scene II):
What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o’er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason, And draw you into