Hamlet's Madness Research Paper

Hamlet’s madness is not real if that makes sense. In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, Hamlet’s fakes acts of madness, later leading to his downfall because it controlled him. The amount of evidence shown in the play shows clearly that Hamlet deliberately feigned fits of madness in order to confuse and unnerve the king and his attendants. Hamlet’s madness is also determined by the people he is surrounded with. While he behaves pretty rationally around Horatio, Bernardo, and Francisco, his acts of madness truly show when he is around people like Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. It’s also possible that displaying his “Antic disposition” might be because he wants to determine the legitimacy of the ghost’s words. While

As Hamlet returns to Denmark, he got hit with bad news, getting informed that his father, King Hamlet, is dead. While Hamlet is still hurt about his father's death, Hamlet’s mother chooses to marry his uncle, Claudius. During that time period, Hamlet meets a ghost, that looks something like his father, and the ghost tells Hamlet that Claudius murdered King Hamlet while asleep. While this made Hamlet feel confusion, sadness, and madness, he decided to put on what he calls an “antic

“What have I done that thou dar’st wag thy/tongue/In noise so rude against me?” (3.4 39-41). Hamlet starts treating those who should be treated with respect, with disrespect, as if they were worthless. Shown in Act 3 Scene 4, Hamlet treats his own mother with disrespect. Also, in Act 3 Scene 1, he treats Ophelia the opposite of how she should be treated, with respect and dignity. “If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague/ for thy dowry; be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as/snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.” (3.1