Me, Myself and Madness Essay

What is sickness? Madness can non be solid ground into unrivalled definition, nor can it be simplified into one specific enactmention. In settlement, settlement, prince of Denmark, is consumed by wildness and is alternately control to his own death. Despite the fact that many an(prenominal) people believe that Hamlets mad appearance was planned and controlled. It is arguable that his madness was not feigned, and he was actually insane. Hamlet was drove into madness by the demonic possession of the ghost of Hamlet, the inscrutable grudge he had for his cause Gerturde, and the craving for vindicate he had for the death of his mystify In act 1, scene 4, Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus are confronted by the ghost that has been roaming close to the tabooskirts of the castle. Hamlet sees, and recognizes that the ghost that has been haunting his home is no(prenominal) other than the spitting image of his father, the late top executive Hamlet, who was inconspicuously murdered by his own crony Claudius, who afterwards becomes king of Denmark, instead of Hamlet.The ghost calls out for Hamlet to retrace him alone into the woods. Hamlets perseverance led him to believe that the ghost of his father had the answers that he desperately needed, and for that, Hamlet decided to follow him alone. Horatio (warning Hamlet against following his fathers ghost) in earnest warned Hamlet that if he follows the ghost, it might deprive your soverereignty of reason and draw you into madness. In other words, Hamlets madness began when he became possessed (both body and mind) by the ghost of his father to bring about his disgust deeds. In this case, Hamlet lost his mind when he erased himself from his own brain and replaced it with his fathers commandments.In addition, Hamlets madness was also driven by a deep grudge he had for his mother Gerturde. After the death of Hamlets father, Gerturde remarried within a month, to his brother Claudius. Hamlet shows excitation at G erturde for happily marrying so soon. And to add smear to injury, it was to his uncle, of all people. Hamlet questions the faithfulness his mother has towards him,and later doubts the love Ophellia has for him. For this reason, Hamlet displays resentment, not only towards his mother, barely to Ophellia, who was uninvolved in the tragic death of his father, and the sudden remarriage of his mother to his uncle.In act 3, scene 1, Hamlet and Ophellia are having an emotional conversation with each other. Hamlet screams to Ophellia get thee to a nunnry, why would tho be a breeder of sinners. For this reason, Hamlet yells get thee to a nunnry several times because he exhorts ophellia to become a nun, so that way, she may never breed sinners, desire him. Even tho he offends Ophellia by reflection this, the insult is more intentionally made for his mother Gerturde. The lack of faithfulness his mother has causes the vulgar behavior he has towards Ophellia, which henceforth progresses Hamle ts madness.