In the course of these scenes, the prince of Denmark seems to me less mad than everyone thinks. Seemingly faking it, he is receiving information from all around him. Though he speaks of suicide and regarding Ophelia as a deceiving woman, he seems to still love her deeply as shown in Act III Scene i lines 122-130.
Yet in Act II Scene ii, Hamlet is overly calm about what he is planning on doing the play in "honor" of the King. He reveals most of his plan to Horatio yet seemingly becomes his normal loner self before becoming "mad" once more as the others enter the scene. While the play goes on, he cunningly interprets the "play" while the others watch in wonder. Hamlet is thrilled as he successfully gets a reaction from Claudius. Hamlet then returns to his normal state of mind and confronts Horatio, wanting his interpretation of the who incident.
Yeah, I know only five sentences were asked but I felt like I needed to say more for some odd reason.
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1 comment:
I disagree that Hamlet still loves Ophelia, after all, he does say that he once loved her, but no more. In his conversations with her, he says many rude and suggestive things, indicating that his affection towards her in some scenes is faked to deceive Polonius.
I agree that he is not as mad as some of the characters think, such as Polonius, who is convinced that Hamlet is insane beyond measure. I think that his madness began as an act, or what he thought was an act, under his control. But as the play progresses, his act goes out of his control, and he actually becomes mad. At first, in scenes such as these, I think he is in control for the most part and has brief episodes of real madness.
Just my dos centavos, hopefully this is what Mr J wanted for our comment
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