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Hum/204 Week 1 Hamlet Research Paper

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Caleb Johnson Ms. Tobias ENGL 1205 28 March 2024 Acting To Reality Lots of people believe that Hamlet is mad, and I agree with them. But I think there is more to it. Hamlet is a very wise person and is very well-spoken. I believe that Hamlet first started acting mad, but throughout the play, and after each event and everything that happened to him, I believe he did turn mad. By the end of the play when he is fighting with Laretes, I think that he has gone fully mad. He completely lost his wise mind. I also think that he knows he is going mad, but does not care. Throughout the play, he was slowly losing it and slipping away from reality. Everything he did became less wise and crazier and crazier. We see this is multiple different parts of the play and there are some main points where he acts crazier and crazier. …show more content…

The soliloquy takes us through a trip in Hamlet's mind. We hear everything he is thinking and all of his feelings. “My father’s brother, but no more like my father/Than I to Hercules: within a month,/Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears/Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,/She married. O most wicked speed, to post/With such dexterity to incestuous sheets:/It is not, nor it cannot come to good,/But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue.” (1.2.151-158). After hearing everything he says, I believe he is going crazy. The thoughts he has about his mother and his uncle getting together right after his father’s death make him sound like a madman or someone from an insane asylum. He talks about how he wishes he could be sad about his father's death for longer, but it just turned into rage towards his mother and his uncle. After Hamlet has his first soliloquy, he sees his father as a ghost. Hamlet’s first interaction with the ghost, his dead father, was the first thing that led to Hamlet’s madness. He could not believe that he was seeing his dead father

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