Madness In Hamlet Essay
Hamlet is a play written by Macbeth where his own brother who wants to take over the kingdom murders the King of Denmark. Except the king’s son finds out that his uncle murdered his father and now is going to do whatever it takes to get revenge. His uncle poured poison down his father’s ear and gave off the impression that serpent bit him. Young Hamlet discovers these and composes a plan to find out whether his uncle actually committed the crime or not. The ghost of his father then visits hamlet and this is how he finds out exactly what happened to the king. For mostly the rest of the play Hamlet is trying to great revenge on his uncle who is now his stepfather. Personally, I believe three major themes of the first three acts are revenge, madness,
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“Faking madness to throw people off—is one of the oldest tricks in the book. In Hamlet, Shakespeare takes it up a notch.” (http://www.shmoop.com/hamlet/madness-theme.html) In my mind, this shows how extremely obvious the theme of madness is portrayed by the character Hamlet. He fakes madness throughout most of the play and is never really caught. He is able to get away with things that he normally wouldn’t have and he’s able to sneak around when he normally wouldn’t have. All of these things are made possible because Hamlet is a good actor and is able to give off the vibe that he is now insane because of his father’s death. Even though the theme of madness is very prevalent in this play, you never really know whether it’s meant to be a good thing or a bad thing. “Another theme of madness found through Hamlet’s craves for honesty and his dislike for deception.” …show more content…
“For someone who hates deception, Hamlet sure finds himself coming up with a lot of lies.” (http://www.shmoop.com/hamlet/lies-deceit-theme.html). This statement is very true because the whole reason or idea of the play is the fact that Claudius lied about killing King Hamlet. And now young Hamlet is trying to revenge his father and ends up lying more and more because of it. It’s kind of contradicting and hypocritically of Hamlet to do these things, and yet he does them anything. “Claudius lies to the entire state of Denmark by killing King Hamlet.” (http://schoolworkhelper.net/deceit-in-hamlet/). This statement makes the theme of lying very clear, because Claudius is brave enough to lie to an entire state about the murder of his own
“Faking madness to throw people off—is one of the oldest tricks in the book. In Hamlet, Shakespeare takes it up a notch.” (http://www.shmoop.com/hamlet/madness-theme.html) In my mind, this shows how extremely obvious the theme of madness is portrayed by the character Hamlet. He fakes madness throughout most of the play and is never really caught. He is able to get away with things that he normally wouldn’t have and he’s able to sneak around when he normally wouldn’t have. All of these things are made possible because Hamlet is a good actor and is able to give off the vibe that he is now insane because of his father’s death. Even though the theme of madness is very prevalent in this play, you never really know whether it’s meant to be a good thing or a bad thing. “Another theme of madness found through Hamlet’s craves for honesty and his dislike for deception.” …show more content…
“For someone who hates deception, Hamlet sure finds himself coming up with a lot of lies.” (http://www.shmoop.com/hamlet/lies-deceit-theme.html). This statement is very true because the whole reason or idea of the play is the fact that Claudius lied about killing King Hamlet. And now young Hamlet is trying to revenge his father and ends up lying more and more because of it. It’s kind of contradicting and hypocritically of Hamlet to do these things, and yet he does them anything. “Claudius lies to the entire state of Denmark by killing King Hamlet.” (http://schoolworkhelper.net/deceit-in-hamlet/). This statement makes the theme of lying very clear, because Claudius is brave enough to lie to an entire state about the murder of his own