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A 4 page paper which examines the situations throughout William Shakespeare’s tragedy that lead characters and audiences to believe that Prince Hamlet was truly mad, and also includes two supporting critical opinions. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and students of William Shakespeare. Was he truly mad, or was he simply trying to convince everyone he was by putting "an antic disposition on" (I.v.163)? There are
several incidents throughout the play that lend considerable credence to the notion that the young Wittenburg University student had, in fact, a precarious hold on his mental faculties. Throughout
the course of the play, Hamlets soliloquies or internal monologues emphasize his inner emotional conflicts, which take him dangerously close to taking his own life. One of the foremost
Shakespearean scholars, A.C. Bradley observed, "That Hamlet was not far from insanity is very probable. His adoption of the pretence of madness may well have been due in part
to fear of the reality; to an instinct of self-preservation, a fore-feeling that the pretence would enable him to give some utterance to the load that pressed on his heart
and brain, and a fear that he would be unable altogether to repress such utterance... Hamlets condition may truly be called diseased" (120). First, there is Hamlets peculiar reaction
to his fathers murder, which he describes to his closest confidant Horatio as "wild and whirling words" (I.v.130). He then engages in a dialogue with what he believes to
be the ghost of his dead father. The ghost supposedly tells Hamlet that his ambitious brother Claudius (who is now the new husband of Prince Hamlets mother, Queen Gertrude)
conspired to murder him and also angrily lashes out against his widows hasty remarriage, encouraging his son to "leave her to heavn / And to those thorns that in her
bosom lodge / To prick and sting her" (I.v.85-87). It is after his spectral encounter that Hamlets personality completely changes and he concocts an elaborate plot to expose Claudius
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