Madness
- Created by: LegendofZelda
- Created on: 06-03-18 09:11
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- Madness
- Shakespeare allows us to question sanity as a social construct
- Neely argues that our perception of madness always remains unfixed-forever changes
- She comments that Shakespeare wrote in a time where people were infatuated mentality and madness
- The same still applies today which is why Hamlet is so engaging and enjoyable
- She comments that Shakespeare wrote in a time where people were infatuated mentality and madness
- Neely argues that our perception of madness always remains unfixed-forever changes
- Mack argues that Shakespeare uses madness as a tool to reveal truths within the play and society
- He comments on madness allowing freedom of speech, although insights may be dismissed by others
- Madness is perceived as a type of divine punishment but still give the sufferer insight and freedom to speak the truth
- Shown within Hamlet when he witnesses the Ghost in the closet scene and reveals the truth about his father's death
- Shown within Ophelia when she sings of truths about her, Polonius and Hamlet as well as giving out symbolic flowers
- Provides social truth/commentary
- "The excess of any passion approached madness"
- The passion Hamlet felt for avenging his father, or arguably saving his mother
- Mack argues that Shakespeare uses madness as a tool to reveal truths within the play and society
- He comments on madness allowing freedom of speech, although insights may be dismissed by others
- Madness is perceived as a type of divine punishment but still give the sufferer insight and freedom to speak the truth
- Shown within Hamlet when he witnesses the Ghost in the closet scene and reveals the truth about his father's death
- Shown within Ophelia when she sings of truths about her, Polonius and Hamlet as well as giving out symbolic flowers
- Provides social truth/commentary
- Ophelia's was not as much passion but more mere loss as the men in her life she was dependent on either died or went away
- The debate that madness could be feigned
- "This be madness, yet, there be method in it"
- Ironic as Polonius believes his madness to be "the very ecstasy of love!" for Ophelia
- Hamlet begins to act 'mad' to fool people to think he is harmless
- Makes him lose grip on reality-suffers the implications
- Sparks the audiences' opinions on Hamlet's true mental state
- His deterioration shows he is far from acting mad but is dealing with his deeper problems as he takes anger out on Gertrude and Ophelia
- The boy who cried wolf?
- Makes him lose grip on reality-suffers the implications
- Act II Scene II
- "This be madness, yet, there be method in it"
- Shakespeare allows us to question sanity as a social construct
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