Insanity comes through a number of causes or events that one goes through at one point of one’s life or in several cases. These problems pile up and distort one’s mind and behavior, forcing them to move quickly on it. In most cases, it may do more harm than good, since the individual concerned can cause havoc and to innocent citizens. However, not everyone is courageous enough to confront their fears or concerns, but prefers to use manipulative means as a way to undermine the survivor. This is what happens in Hamlet, a play by Shakespeare, about a young prince, and his vengeance for his father is a killer. However, his insanity or madness turns out to be his biggest enemy, making him lack focus on the main objective. The research paper will …show more content…
According to T.S Elliot, Hamlet’s character has an especial temptation towards the dangerous type of critic, which comes from the natural creative order but their weakness in creative power acts as criticism towards their exercise (par 2). Ideally, Hamlet’s especial temptation is to kill Claudius, a dangerous type of critic, which makes him battle his natural creative order to undertake the action. However, as expressed by Horatio, Hamlet does seem up to the task as his creative power is quite weak towards the success (II.1.30). There are two scenarios that describe Hamlet’s lack of courage towards killing …show more content…
His levity, repetition of phrases, and puns act as his emotional relief and not the deliberate plan in dissimulation. His emotions act as buffoonery towards finding an outlet to his actions and makes him weak. However, he manages to kill the King, but that comes at a price. Everyone he meets dies even Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who are innocent characters in the play (Bali 84). Hamlet loose his first objective from the play’s beginning, which makes the reader wonder whether Shakespeare’s main objective was to delay the killing or prolong the play. His madness does allow him to connect with his mother and father but through the