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Hamlets Insanity

ifficult choice between Hamlet and Claudius, with disastrous psychological results for Hamlet if she chooses against him. While up at his mothers room Hamlet had originally planned to punish her with ‘verbal daggers’ for her being unfaithful , her unwillingness to listen to him so he releases his murderous impulse against her. In a moment of actual insanity he somehow manages to deflect the blow towards to her at the direction of a sound behind the curtain, killing the unexpected body of Polonius. At this moment he was going so insane that he totally ignored the body of Polonius and went on accusing his mother for treating his father badly and losing trust in him. In treating relatives or friends, Hamlet would like to express his anger towards them without arising suspicion that he is in a sane state. He also wants to be able to punish them or hurt them for supporting Claudius, he hopes to do this by going free on a basis of insanity. In addition this story was a tragedy and the tragedy in this story was of course Hamlet the man who has been destroyed by his fathers’ death and his mothers’ wrongdoings has made him an angry man. This angry man turned into a man that would go as far as acting insane to find the killer of his father and get Claudius away from his mother. In the end it finally all came true Claudius and Laertes had set out to kill Hamlet but in the act of doing so; Hamlet was stabbed with the poisonous sword, Gertrude drank to Hamlets health and her own(her death), Hamlet went on a rampage and killed Claudius, and Laertes was killed thus bringing an end to Hamlet and his “antic disposition”. In Hamlets last moments with his acting done he said to Horatio not to give up because his friend Laertes has died but to make sure that he tells the story of what has occurred....

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