Hamlet's Insanity

Hamlet is a legendary character, with many aspects to his personality. The biggest and most important one being his insanity. There were moments in his life that made him this way.. They were crucial to the increase of his hysteria, and therefore his identity. In this essay, we will discuss these three most pivotal moments to Hamlet’s mindset: his father’s death, his mother’s marriage to his uncle, and the confirmed murder of his parents.

The first moment that changed Hamlet was his father’s death. The death of his father was a huge point in the play and an even bigger point in Hamlet’s life. We can see that when King Claudius says, “Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it, Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resembles that it was. What
He didn’t quite reach a point where people got too worried though. They assumed that he was mourning. However, in scene l act ll, King Claudius says, “How is it that the clouds still hang on you?” thus implying that Hamlet has been in tears for a while. It doesn’t seem that anyone is noticing anything particularly odd about him, just this state of grieving. At this point other things had happened, but from here, it seems he’s still himself somewhere, just a different, more melancholy
In the beginning of the play, we are visited by a ghost marking himself as Hamlet’s father. After identifying himself, he tells the story of his death. In it, he says, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”. It must be said that prior to this, Hamlet believed that his father had been killed by a snake. His father goes on to say that it was Hamlet’s now uncle dad who killed him, which does add to Hamlet’s insanity. However, the adding factor to Hamlet’s sanity being fully lost is his mother’s murder. She declares, “No, no, the drink, the drink,-O my dear Hamlet,- The drink, the drink I am poison'd.” Before dying. It doesn’t take long for Laertes to confess that it had been Hamlet’s father who had poisoned the newly deceased queen. The poison had been meant for