Hamlet Crazy or Acting
By: David • Essay • 523 Words • March 30, 2010 • 1,760 Views
Hamlet Crazy or Acting
The real question is Hamlet crazy or is he just acting
it. In my opinion there are many things throughout the
play that make me tend to believe that he is crazy. When
Hamlet enters Opheliu's room and she has the question if he
is truly mad or if he is just acting. Hamlet is proven o be
crazy in this play and statements and actions he days and
does are the thing that prove this.
There are many things that make me tend to believe
that Hamlet is crazy. There are also many things that he
does that does not want to make you think that he is crazy
but for others to think this of him it just make me want to
believe
even more that he is crazy. One of the things that
shows that he is crazy is that he contemplates suicide or as
Hamlet says "self slaughter", this is definitely
a true act of
pure craziness. Hamlet also wants to believe that he see's
this ghost of his father that is odd because when he is in
the room with his mother he starts to talk to the ghost and
the mother does not see it. Also when he walked into
Ophelius's room he just stood there staring at her for a long
time and no normal person does this. This is just another
example of one of the examples that proves that Hamlet is
crazy. Hamlet also has a lot of evil in him like when he
killed Polomius for no reason when he was behind the
curtains in his moms room. Also when he see's his Uncle
Claudius praying he is deciding whether or not it is a good
idea to kill him. These are just other examples how I think
that he is crazy. Another importnt