If u think so please explain.....
2007-09-26 13:33:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
no, not completely. He was kind of faking it to get revenge "There is a method to his madness"
I agree with jukebox though
2007-09-26 13:59:55 · answer #1 · answered by captain_koyk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was it Horatio who said, "Though there be madness, there is method to it."
He is not the only one seeing ghosts either. All of the guards, and Horatio see the ghost of Hamlet's father. Hamlet is the only one who hears him speak, but other people see him, so that, at least doesn't make him crazy.
Hamlet has been through some terrible things. From a modern day, clinical perspective, he could easily get off on Claudius's murder with a "temporary insanity defense."
His problem really isn't "is he crazy or not," it is "To be, or not to be." To act or not to act. That is the question he never really answers until it is too late.
2007-09-27 12:44:43 · answer #2 · answered by swigaro 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of the question of whether Hamlet is crazy is made problematic by the fact that Hamlet deliberately decides to act crazy on purpose. By seeming crazy, he can put his mother and stepfather off the track of thinking he is trying to expose his uncle as a murderer. So there is part intent to appear crazier than he perhaps is.
I think Hamlet begins as sane, but by “playing crazy” he becomes so. He is certainly inwardly tortured by his reflections on the death of his father, and suspicions about his mother. I think that would make anyone a little crazy.
2007-09-26 20:41:04 · answer #3 · answered by ♫♪ Jukebox Hero ♪♫ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dnt think he was mad i think he has more of a split personality he is a very complex charachter misunderstood.its kind of a twisted play because there are numerous amounts of ways u can interpret this charachter for example him seeing his fathers ghost can also be seen as his sub concious playing tricks on him.I found it very hard to understand
2007-09-26 20:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by snipho_friendly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think he was crazy.
I think the madness was an act so he could set up his revenge scheme.
Well acted, however, the audience can never really be sure.
2007-09-26 20:51:20 · answer #5 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm so glad that I haven't had to read that book yet! It looks absolutly boring!
2007-09-26 20:38:10 · answer #6 · answered by Ms. Williams 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely Schizophrenic.
He saw beings, that other couldn't.
2007-09-26 20:46:13 · answer #7 · answered by Babyshambles 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋