The article “The Sanity of Hamlet”, The learned Doctor Johnson remarks, “Of the feigned madness of Hamlet there appears no adequate cause, for he does nothing which he might not have done with reputation of sanity,” while the wiser Coleridge finds in the play evidence of “Shakespeare’s deep and accurate science in mental philosophy.” This shows that Hamlet’s thought and his imagination are deeply inside his soul. Moreover, Hamlet in the play of Shakespeare is brave and careless of death, but hesitate from sensibility, and procrastinates from his …show more content…
Davis “if Hamlet was really mad, his psychosis was that of an intellectual, a hypertrophy of the inner eye whose function it is to perceive meanings, relations, and implications; while if he was only feigning his insanity, then he did it by taking things too strictly, too literally, by a general social perverseness manifested in a desire to quibble and split hairs.” His madness, whether real or fake, it was an excess of sanity. Doubtless was annoyed by the garrulity of Polonius. Obviously, there is nothing worse than reply to Polonius answer, which Hamlet makes when Polonius asks him what he is reading? And what could tend less to encourage further conversation? What could be ruder, or more logical, than Hamlet’s reply when Polonius offer to take leave of him? “You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal, except my life, except my life, except my life.” Truly, Polonius just want to figure out what Hamlet is thinking about, and what he wants to