Was Hamlet Really Mad Research Paper

Was Hamlet truly mad? I don’t necessarily think Hamlet was mad, but instead stricken with excessive melancholy, so much that he was unable to sustain a healthy view on life. Hamlet is overwhelmed with so many emotions of grief, hatred, betrayal, and feeling misunderstood , for he is incapable to express himself accordingly to public and family standards. After many encounter’s with the ghost of his father, Hamlet, became compulsively obsessed about obtaining the truth behind his father’s untimely passing. Hamlet was now convince that his uncle, the king, plotted his father’s murder, by pouring poison into his ear while he was in slumber. Thus, Hamlet took it upon himself to expose the king of his treason, by creating a play identical to his