characters of the play about Hamlet’s sanity and the split is along gender lines. Ophelia (Act II‚ scene i.) and Gertrude (Act III‚ scene iv.) both state that Hamlet is "mad‚" Ophelia reporting his dishevelment to her father‚ the Queen being unable to see or hear her son’s final exchange with the Ghost of her husband. The major male characters‚ on the other hand‚ see with Polonius (II‚ ii.) that there is "method" in Hamlet’s "madness‚" that his insanity is a surface mask to shield him as he plans the darker
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was indeed a very sane man. He was only feigning madness to further his own plans for revenge. His words were so cleverly constructed that others will perceive him as mad. It is this consistent cleverness that is the ultimate evidence of his complete sanity. Can a mad person be so clever? No‚ a mad person cannot. Hamlet is sane and brilliant. After Hamlet‚ Horatio‚ and Marcellus see the ghost‚ Hamlet tells Horatio that he is going to "feign madness". If Horatio is to notice Hamlet acting strange
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DECEPTION IN HAMLET One must always be weary of the truth because it is quite often manipulated to serve the needs of any person who requires that the truth be on their side. Quite often‚ the only way to discern the truth from the fiction is by way of a deceptive act‚ because an act of deception always exposes both its self and the truth to be two quite different things. Nowhere is this more true than in William Shakespeare’s‚ Hamlet. One of the major themes in the play is in fact‚ deception.
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To begin‚ the monologue I have chosen is from HAMLET Act 3‚ Scene 1‚ Page 7. Correspondingly‚ the character (Ophelia) who I am playing has a very straightforward goal in her monologue. With this said‚ Ophelia is expressing her lament for Hamlet’s mental deterioration. Ophelia says her monologue to the audience with sadness and extreme distress. For example‚ Ophelia states that Hamlet’s “noble mind is here o’erthrown!” This beginning phrase is significant because it is her explaining how Hamlet’s
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Hamlet can only be considered man driven through turmoil due to his quest for revenge. As Hamlet faked madness‚ it seemed that his plans were easier to obtain. Hamlet only acts as an insane man would while others were around. Alone‚ he would turn into a much saner Hamlet. He commits no actions without reason‚ and he is far too intelligent to be proclaimed mentally unstable. Hamlet’s “insane” actions are also very complex because they allow not only his points to be made‚ but in a believably
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mistrustful of even his own son. 3. Why is Ophelia so upset when she enters at 2.1.74.1? What has happened to her? Does Hamlet’s appearance (in her telling) as a madman (a distracted lover) come as a surprise after what we last heard him say? Why would he appear in this sort of madness to her? Is there any possibility he really is a distracted lover responding to Ophelia’s apparent rejection of him? How well has she obeyed her father’s orders in 1.3? When Ophelia enters the scene she cries that she has
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Hamlet and Ophelia is mostly controlled by Polonius. However‚ Ophelia does receive ill-treatment from her brothers Laertes and Hamlet‚ as well as her own father‚ Polonius. All of these men contribute to her weak female character individually and on different levels. They also appear to influence Ophelia’s later developed insanity and suicide. The opening act of the play introduces all important characters‚ tells much of the plot and projects an important‚ lasting image of Ophelia. In act 1
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Ophelia is the most evident victim of this play. With her death‚ she is released from the suffering and heartache that comes with her life. Her brother leaves her to face her father‚ her father is murdered by the man whom she loves‚ and the man she loves leaves her to go to England. Not to mention that she is used as a pawn between people trying to damage each other. The death of this poor girl should be surprising‚ but with everything she endured‚ it is a wonder that she did not pass earlier. Ophelia
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place in Elsinore‚ Denmark Hamlet by Williams Shakespeare is a remarkable play where love and madness co-exist in an all-out war between family and friends. For many years‚ literature scholars have viewed Hamlet’s themes in many ways and forms. I intend to view Hamlet’s themes as well to come to a better understanding of the play. In order to fully analyze this I intend to explore family‚ love‚ madness and the center of the whole play…death. By carefully considering each point and view of the play
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insanity making the reader question if these sudden outbursts are staged or if Hamlet truly is crazy. Hamlet claims that his madness is intentional but is it a possibility that his acting has actually had a drastic change on his sanity? With the help of the literary elements Shakespeare makes it clear that Hamlet truly was struggling to maintain his own sanity. His madness not only lead to his own death but also to
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