Madness and Insanity in Shakespeares Hamlet - A Sane Man :: Shakespeare Hamlet Essays

critical point A Sane Man       small t deliver was indeed a very compos mentis(predicate) man. He was only belie madness to furtherhis own plans for revenge. His words were so expertly constructed that others depart perceive him as mad.  It is this consistent cleverness that is the ultimateevidence of his have a go at it sanity. Can a mad person be so clever? No, a mad personcannot. crossroads is sane and brilliant.         After crossroads, Horatio, and Marcellus verify the ghost, Hamlet tells Horatiothat he is going to feign madness. If Horatio is to notice Hamlet actingstrange it is because he is putting on an act. How strange or odd someer Ibear myself/(As I perchance hereafter shall recall meet/To put an anticdisposition on)/That you, at such generation seeing, neer shall,/With armsencumbered thus, or this headshake ,/Or by pronouncing of some doutfulphrase,/As Well,well,we know, or We could an if  we/wo uld,/Or If we list tospeak, or on that point be an if they/might,/Or such ambiguous giving-out, tonote/That you know of me-this do swear,/(I,v,190-201).Hamlet states that fromthis point forward I may act weird exclusively to ignore my acts of madness for they arejust that, acts, and are in no way a sign of true madness. Only a sane andrational person could devise such a plan as to act insane to convince othersthat he is insane when he in truth has complete control over his psyche.         Hamlet only acts mad when he is in the presence of certain characters.When he is around Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, andGuildenstern he acts in all irrational. When Hamlet is around Horatio,Bernardo, Fransico, the players, and the gravediggers Hamlet acts completelysane.         When Hamlet and Polonius meet in II,ii Hamlet calls Polonius afishmonger and makes strange conversation with him. In IV,iii Hamlet re fuses totell Claudius were he has hidden the body of Polonius and goes on about howPolonius is at supper. When Hamlet encounters Gertrude in her closet, an unusualplace, in III,iv. He yells at his own mother. In II,i Hamlet enters Opheliascloset, a highly unusual act, he is dressed to kill(p) badly, and acts very strange towardsher. Claudius and Polonius set up a clandestine meet between Hamlet andOphelia in III,i. Ophelia then tries to return some gifts that Hamlet gave toher and Hamlet claims that he did not give her any gifts and that he never lovedher at all. During the play in III,ii Hamlet sexually harasses Ophelia in frontof the entire audience of the play. In IV,ii Hamlet refuses to tell Rosencratz