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Hamlet

Submitted by babygirlracy on November 6, 2005

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Hamlet. Is he an insane madman or a revengeful, scheming, genius? There

are many conflicting ideas and theories on this subject, and hopefully this

paper may be of some assistance in clearing up the confusion. The paper is

divided into three separate analytic sections beginning with the beginning of

Hamlet's so called madness, and why it may have occurred. Next, is an analysis

of why Hamlet delays revenging his father's death. To conclude the paper,

Hamlet's incestuous acts towards his mother are discussed, in William

Shakespeare's Hamlet.


In the first act Hamlet seems to be in a perfectly sane state of mind

throughout all five scenes. It is in the second scene where the audience begins

to see a change in his character. Ophelia meets with Polonius and recalls the

meeting she had previously with Hamlet. She tells her father that Hamlet came

to her disheveled and in a shaken state of mind, speaking of "horrors." (Act 2

Scene 2 line 94). Her father immediately believes that he is "Mad for thy

love?" (Act 2 Scene 2 line 95). Opelia answers a question posed by Polonius by

which she replied that she had told Hamlet that she could not see or communicate

with him any more. Her father makes reference to Hamlet's madness once again by

proclaiming that what his daughter said, "... hath made him (Hamlet) mad." (Act

2 Scene 2 line 123).

The argument of whether Hamlet is insane because of his love for Ophelia is

often debated, but a more confusing and complex situation is the struggle within

Hamlet's mind. His personal struggle is revealed to the audience in scene one

of the third act. In this scene Hamlet recites his...

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