Madness and grief can be mistaken for the same thing, but you experience more emotions when you are going through grief. In the play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Shakespeare presents characterization, foreshadowing, imagery in order to show Hamlet's grief, ultimately illustrating that when someone goes through grief they go through many different types of emotions, such as anger, denial , bargaining.
In the text, Shakespeare made Hamlet experience a lot of trauma and it started with his father's death. Shakespeare uses imagery to show Hamlet's experiencing emotions of anger. Anger overcomes Hamlet once his mother, Gertrude, marries his father's brother, Claudius. The text shows, “Would have mourn’d longer, --- married with my uncle, My father’s brother; but no more like my father” Hamlet describes how he is feeling about his mother's actions during this soliloquy. His anger makes him
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For example, in act 1 scene 1, Horatio gives a warning that something is going wrong for the country after the king's ghost appears. Hamlet's father dying is enough trauma for one person, but having to talk to their ghost is even more. Hamlet would have eventually gotten over the stages of grief and accepted it but since he found out the king was murdered by his brother, more emotions added to the sadness, such as anger, denial and shock. The play shows another example of foreshadowing when Ophelia is talking about Hamlet to her father and how he is turning mad. This shows how everyone around Hamlet thinks he is mad, but they seem not to be affected by the king's death, so in reality, they really don't know what Hamlet is going through at all. If the other characters cared more about the king's death, they could have all helped each other to get over it rather than go around calling each other