Hassane In Hamlet

Throughout Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, the character Hamlet has a myriad of relationships with other the characters. Each of these different characters play an important role in helping to develop and distinguish Hamlet’s mental health. The playlist of Hamlet’s life has songs of all different genres and decades, but they all relate back to answering the same question: was Hamlet acting crazy or had he really gone insane? These songs illustrate the relationships that Hamlet has with some of the characters from the play, along with a few songs that would have Hamlet questioning his own life and what he wants for himself.
The first song on the playlist of Hamlet’s life would be “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley. Throughout the duration of
This song would be played whenever he is thinking about Ophelia and it could be interpreted that the lyrics are being sung by Ophelia to Hamlet before she takes her own life. The very first two lines, “Take your eyes off of me so I can leave. /I'm far too ashamed to do it with you watching me,” (Adele) represent how Ophelia wanted to escape from life. She was ashamed to do it because suicide was considered to be sin and she could not have a proper burial. She also knew that she would be letting the people around her down. She is asking Hamlet, and everyone else, to let her go. The lyrics, “Please stay where you are/ Don't come any closer/ Don't try to change my mind,” (Adele) show Ophelia seeing that Hamlet has had similar thoughts about suicide, but she is asking him not to kill himself. This is something that she feels that she has to do to escape reality and there is no changing her mind about it. Ophelia did love Hamlet once, but got frightened by him. The lyrics, “But I can't stay this time cause I don't love you anymore,” (Adele) is a good example of how she used to love him and stuck up for him. In Act I, she defends Hamlet to Polonius and Laertes when they question his character. However, later on at the start of Act II, Hamlet scares her off and she falls out of love with him. This may be the main reason why she begins to go insane. Ophelia can remember a time when she did love Hamlet, but now he is a changed person. She can no longer love