Friday, November 23, 2007
Hamlet's madness 3:1
In Act 3:1 Hamlet is expressing his "madness" to Ophelia as she tries to figure out if he loves her. He sounds mad, but with a saness twist to it. It is as if he is crazy because he tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery over and over again, as if he is saying I love you, but I don't. He tells her that to protect herself from marriage and giving birth to sinners. This all seems a little strange, but thought had to go into this madness, which I believe suggests that he is faking. Polonius, Claudious, and Gertrude were watching; Hamlet can't stop being insane ever if he is to pull off his act. Yet, as I said before it seems as if he put thought into his madness. How can a really crazy person seem to sane every once in awhile? King Claudious seemed to agree in lines 165-167. I'm still not sure exactly were I fit in this argument, because I guess an insane person go through sputs of saness as they go insane, I don't really know how the process works. I am leaning towards Hamlet is just putting on an act, there seems to be more evidence in that direction.
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I agree that Hamlet is just putting on an act for all to see. His dialog suggests that he may love her enough to be cruel toward her but give hidden meaning through his actions. It is evident also in 3:2 that Hamlet is sane once more as he speaks with the players and Horatio. In lines 79-86(before Horatio speaks), Hamlet is speaking of the ghost, which they both have sworn not to speak of to anyone, yet they speak freely to each other before the others arrive for the play. In conclusion, I agree with you completely!
I totally agree with you that Hamlet is not actually crazy, but merely putting on an act so as to trick everyone as a way to develop his plan. I don't even know if it is a word, but I loved how you said "saness." At first I was like...wait...what? And then I figured out what you said and it made complete sense. Nice word choice/creation? Now that we understand more of what he is saying, I think we can see that he was not crazy in saying "Get thee to a nunnery" but simply bashing on Ophelia because he may feel like he got played or something. I think it's pretty funny how he calls her a jerk after he just called her a whore. Irony anyone?
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