How Does Hamlet Drive Someone To Insanity

Madness can drive someone to insanity. Give a person a motive, tools, and a plan and they’re golden. If a loved one were to die, we'd want revenge. Knowing that they have gotten away with it would be the key to madness. Some might think that Hamlet grew insane with revenge, the urge for justice is simple. Hamlet grew mad with the delusion of this and in doing so did many things others wouldn't do in order to get what he wanted to do. In Hamlet, Sharkspeare does a great job with showing how Hamlet in the beginning of the play is contrasting to him at the end of the play.

In Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2, Line 92 it says “I will be brief. Your noble son is mad”. In this scene it talks about the hysteria of Hamlet and drove the readers into a deep

And it can cause some of those to believe he was faking to be skeptical of him. For him to be actually deranged and mad instead of faking for revenge. Now Polonius thinks that Hamlet’s madness is a form of lovesickness, his love for Ophelia and therefore becomes sick with love while she loves him as a dear friend. That may cause one to get weary and mad just by staying friends though their feelings are so immensely strong. While dealing with that he says things that don’t make sense regardless of the conversation and ultimately he’s either really, truly insane from seeing the ghost all the way in the beginning of the play or he’s the best liar ever. And honestly, even to the end he dies while in a frenzy of delusion and dies doing what he promised. Revenge. And, revenge is a complex subject on its own, how to deal with it and start acting on it without acting out of fueled rage and hatred for whatever the subject was to

I truly believe that he was insane. At least at the end. When someone acts a certain way or says a certain thing they don’t like, sooner or later they will start liking that thing or acting the way they were doing as a joke. And, I think Hamlet was pretending at first to be insane, but you can only pretend to an extent without realizing that maybe you might be truly insane. In Act 3, Scene 2, Line 254 it says, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” This quote is from the play-within-a-play and doesn’t suggest his insanity. Though his actions throughout the play may lead to it. His obsessive focus with the play in order to trap and accuse his uncle Claudius as the murderer, to his verbal attacks on Ophelia. The play-within-a-play might have deeper meaning and with the unhealthy obsessiveness he has with it, it could be a leading reason why he became truly insane. Hamlet interrogates Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and in Act 2, Scene 2, Line 246 he laughs. He is fixated on the idea that they are spying on him and in a sudden burst of laughter it sets the others uneasy. His laughter towards that idea of them spying on him could be interpreted as a sign of his instability and paranoia, he doesn’t want the others to know his plan and if he had people spying it might not be good for him. Regardless of being insane he might suffer from a true mental illness that others may perceive as insane. For example, a