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How To Be Soliloquy In Hamlet

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Hamlet 's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy is arguably the most famous soliloquy in the history. Hamlet infamous statement towards himself. Hamlet is unlike any other character in Shakespeare plays before. Hamlet has complex character with many layers that need to be exposed to actually see what he means. Which draw the assumption of what Hamlet that was his mental state of health in play was a lie or was it just to readers more attracted to him. There are many mislead interpretation throughout the play that give a different type of feeling to the play . So in conclusion was Hamlet in the play insane or was just a gimmick to make every one else believe that he was.
Hamlet is a play that is about ambition and revenge and conscience that go …show more content…

In the play there are many signs that show and express Hamlet emotions which are interrupted as being insane. When Polonius is telling the King and Queen that Hamlet has gone made he states that, "your noble son is mad: / Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, / What is 't but to be nothing else but mad? (II.II.92-94). This implies that Polonius believes that it is not an act that he is really mentally ill. Another assumption that is made towards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by Hamlet that states, "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw" (II.II.378-379) This draws the conclusion that they attempt to find out what 's wrong with him, when Hamlet’s states that he is not insane/mad to his mother he states to her "Make you to ravel all this matter out, / That I essentially am not in madness, / But mad in craft" (III.IIII.186-188). This means that Hamlet clearly stated that he was not mad/insane that it was just …show more content…

When it comes to Hamlet mental health it draws up many question. Many people try to explain these occurrence. Hamlet unlike Macbeth shows that he has many quality of a character that is really hard to depicted and understand his motive throughout the play. Hamlet shows many characteristics of being insane but was believed to be not “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.” Though John Dryden 's quote was not made in regard to William Shakespeare 's Hamlet, it relates very well to the argument of whether or not Hamlet went insane. Claudius confesses that Hamlet 's "actions although strange, do not appear to stem from madness.". In addition, Polonius admits that Hamlet 's actions and words have a "method" that appears to be a reason behind them, they are logical in nature. Max Huhner who has published several literary essays, Huhner reduces the problem of Hamlet to one factor, of the sort that Freud conceptualized as "secondary gain in mental disease." Hamlet, says Huhner, "could not hold his tongue or keep a secret, and was therefore entirely unfitted for diplomatic work. In a sense his feigning insanity was his sole avenue of safety." This provides concrete evidence that believe that Hamlet’s insanity was just a method to revenge and rampage.
So in conclusion there are many different types of interpretations when it comes to Hamlet. Even being that Shakespeare wrote a complex play, but even a complex character such

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