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Is Hamlet Really Mad Essay

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Hamlet’s mad is just an act because the revenge, which is the main content in the whole play. He makes other people think that he is really mad and crazy by using clever strategies. In the play, Horatio, and Marcellus see the ghost and told Hamlet about that. Hamlet talked to the ghost without Horatio, and Marcellus with him. When he came back, he told Horatio he is going to act madness, but Horatio did not figure out his strange behavior is because he is going to plan for a revenge. Q1. Hamlet is planning for everything, only a person who is conscious or sane can act madness, and devise a plan for a purpose that makes people think he is mad. Q2 In IV,iii Hamlet refuses to tell Claudius where he has hidden the body of Polonius and goes on about how Polonius is at supper. Actually this is a part of his revenge, he is controlling or taking over everything. Q3. This quote shows Hamlet talks to Polonius not like normal. Polonius thinks Hamlet is trying to act something, and there should have a big reason for that. Because he is not what he normally talks like. Claudius also find out Hamlet is acting madness. Q4. …show more content…

She tells him that she is returning them, and basically signals that their relationship was over. Q5Q6. After Ophelia’s father died and Hamlet rejected her, she felt her life is done, she cannot handle everything happened on her. So she is crazy, and she did all the crazy behaviors. Ophelia considered only death can end everything, so she choose to suicide by brown herself. Shakespeare shows a true mad person, which is Ophelia. Compare Ophelia’s madness and Hamlet’s madness, Hamlet is act madness because the revenge, also the revenge control his mind. Q7. Hamlet told his mother about the revenge, and he told her that he is not crazy at all, the reason he did this is because he want to revenge for his father’s death. Hamlet control his mind throughout the whole

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