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Shakespeare's Hamlet, indeed a very sane man

Date Submitted: 12/03/2004 00:38:15
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Hamlet was indeed a very sane man. He was only feigning madness to further his own plans for revenge. His words were so cleverly constructed that others will perceive him as mad. It is this consistent cleverness that is the ultimate evidence of his complete sanity. Can a mad person be so clever? No, a mad person cannot. Hamlet is sane and brilliant.         After Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus see the ghost, Hamlet tells Horatio that …

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…tells Horatio that he is going to feign madness, Hamlet only acts mad in front of certain characters. Claudius and Polonius believe that Hamlet is not mad but that there is a purpose behind his madness, Shakespear gives an example of a truly mad person, and that Hamlet tells his mother that he is not crazy. These facts prove beyond a doubt that Hamlet had complete control of psyche at all times throughout the play.

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