then she lies to him about her father’s whereabouts. He reacts in away that any hurt young rejected lover would, so for those people who see Hamlet insanity in the way he treats Ophelia, I have just one thing to say: If his behavior was the result of madness then, this means that we all are insane.Summarizing all this evidences, I can say that they are a great proof of Hamlet`ssanity, and that all these others critics evidences of his madness, or those Freud`s believes of Hamlet’s melancholy, are nothing else but empty words. I truly believe that he was grief-stricken rather than insane or melancholic. Kirsch, in the “Shakespearean Criticism”, says that: “the betrayed character of Hamlet suffers throughout the play in a manner more consistent with a state of mourning than one of melancholy and mental derangement. (pp. 17-36) Like Kirsch, I also think that Hamlet is in a state of mourning rather than of disease, partially because he is always conscious of the manic roles he plays, and is always lucid with Horatio, but also because “his thoughts and feelings turn outward as well as inward and his behavior is finally a symbiotic response to the actually diseased world of the play. And though that diseased world, poisoned at the root by a truly guilty King, eventually represents an overwhelming tangle of guilt, its main emphasis, both for Hamlet and for us, is the experience of grief. The essential focus of the action as well as the source of its consistent pulsations of feeling, the pulsations which continuously charge both Hamlet`s sorrow and his anger (and in which the whole issue of delay is subsumed) is the actuality of conscious, not unconscious loss.” (Alexander, p.73). Sidorowicz-11We have to remember that although king offers his consolation for Hamlet`s grief, it comes at the...
