HAMLET′S MADNESS

HAMLET′S MADNESS

I′m going to give you an example of how my teacher wants you to write this paper. Scholars debate whether Hamlet is feigning madness or is actually mad. However, the madness comes in stages. From the start, Hamlet is distraught with the death of his father, “O that this too too solid flesh would melt” (Line 129). Or is he? There must be something else bothering him, “that the everlasting had not fixed/ His canon “against self-slaughter” (131-132). Perhaps there is something wrong in Denmark, “tis an unweeded garden/ that grows to seed” (135-136). But the evidence implicates that Hamlet is mad about Gertrude’s hasty marriage “two months dead. Nay not so much… So excellent a king. That was to his Hyperion to a satyr” (138 and 140). I left three sources in the files for the main source we are to use the play. I′m going to give you an example of how my teacher wants you to write this paper. Scholars debate whether Hamlet is feigning madness or is actually mad. However, the madness comes in stages. From the start, Hamlet is distraught with the death of his father, “O that this too too solid flesh would melt” (Line 129). Or is he? There must be something else bothering him, “that the everlasting had not fixed/ His canon “against self-slaughter” (131-132). Perhaps there is something wrong in Denmark, “tis an unweeded garden/ that grows to seed” (135-136). But the evidence implicates that Hamlet is mad about Gertrude’s hasty marriage “two months dead. Nay not so much… So excellent a king. That was to his Hyperion to a satyr” (138 and 140). I left three sources in the files for the main source we are to use the play.