Mental Illnessity In Hamlet

The play Hamlet, by Shakespeare, is a very important piece to understand the grim actuality and undeserved consequence of one’s untreated mental state. In the case of these mental states, actions are still just as affected by the karmic consequence as all other characters. The justification of actions using signs of mental illness does not excuse the eventual and inevitable karmic consequence, but helps readers actually understand the character.

“My greatest fear is this brain of mine..The worst thing imaginable is to be terrified of one’s own mind, the very matter that controls all that we are and all that we do and feel”(Torrey). E. Fuller Torrey, M.D wrote a book to help the parents and families of people who suffer from schizophrenia disorders and those alike. According to many doctors who are specialist like Torrey, schizophrenia disorders are held on a spectrum and hold different subtypes of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia can take control over a person’s life and mind in some of the worst ways possible. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet’s biggest adversity is his own mind. Hamlet shows symptoms of Schizoaffective disorder, a subtype of schizophrenia that causes delusions and severe depression. Hamlet shows symptoms of schizoaffective disorder through his delusions of conversations with his dead father and his severe depression over his father’s death and mother’s remarriage throughout the play.

Shakespeare's plays have tendencies to be tragedies with those who suffer from flaws or mental illness`s that can lead them to death. Hamlet is a tragic play written by Shakespeare about the prince who`s uncle killed his father. Hamlet lives with many difficult moments that can affect anyones mentally. In the play Hamlet, mental illness is a common problem that creates tragedy in the lives of Hamlet and Ophelia throughout the play. Hamlet displays signs of Schizophrenia with the way he hallucinates his deceased father King Hamlet. Ophelia suffers from mental illness from mental abuse she has suffered from her significant other. These two characters suffer from mental illness that affect those around them.

In the beginning of the play the main character, Hamlet, gets a visit from the ghost of his father that has recently deceased unexpectedly. His father’s ghost appears throughout the play but only Hamlet has the ability to see this spirit which leads to the conception that he has gone insane. He grieves his father’s death in very unhealthy

William Shakespeare's Hamlet is a complex text that details the failing mental status of a young prince. Hamlet’s antic disposition is all part of a diluted plot to exact revenge of Claudius and shifts in severity based on the characters Hamlet is surrounded by. The clinical definition of insanity explains that the person suffering cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality. Given the fact Hamlet manipulated his illness he cannot be ruled insane as he was mentally aware of his reality and used his insanity to get ahead.Therefore Hamlet was not insane but instead faking his illness to warp others views of himself.

Throughout history, mental illness has always been prevalent. As far as time goes, there have been murders and crimes that could not of been committed by a healthy mind. In the play of Hamlet, the story is based around crimes, lies, and deceiving others. Claudius has murdered King Hamlet, causing a chain reaction of other crimes. After realizing the real fate of his father, Hamlet set out to seek revenge for his father. He wanted to murder Claudius for killing his father, but mistook Polonius for Claudius, killing him. After that event, Claudius realized that Hamlet knew what actually happened and to protect the throne, wanted to get rid of Hamlet. In the process of protecting his throne, he lies to his people. He lies and manipulates

In Hamlet, he seems to be mad, but there is a question that everyone asks when reading or watching this play “was it, or was it not true that Hamlet was faking his insanity, really suffering, or maybe even both.” First, this is what insanity is: insanity is acting crazy, but not knowing that they’re acting crazy. Also, it’s going through a lot of stress at the same time causing you to act stranger then a normal person. Hamlet was not totally insane. It doesn’t fit.

He told Horatio, one of his really good friends, to play along with him acting insane so he can hide the fact that he is going to get revenge on his father by killing King Claudius, so this is why he wanted people to think he was going insane. Hamlet tries to explain to Guildenstern, another good friend of his, that he is just simply acting and there is no reason behind it. Hamlet's attempt to pretend to act insane backfires, resulting in his actual symptoms of schizophrenia. One of Hamlet’s first symptoms of Schizophrenia is that Hamlet assumes this hallucination is actually the ghost of his dead father. During the encounter with the ghost, Hamlet's mind begins to see what he wants to see: his dead father.

When someone is visibly sick, people worry about them or say that they should go to the doctor. Generally, people care about others, especially close friends or family member. Therefore, why do people appear to ignore a person’s bereavement after several months had passed? As modern psychology would tell society, untreated depression is not only the most common cause of suicide, but it can also lead to psychotic episodes in the most extreme of cases. In these cases, depression acts usually as a catalyst for someone who already has developed some form of psychosis, and they experience both visual and auditory hallucinations related to the cause of the depression. Furthermore, affected persons can also develop psychosis through the severe trauma that caused the depression. Therefore, people who have an untreated mental illness may not only cause self inflicting harm, but harm upon others who are closest to them.

William Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet around the 1600, telling the story of a young prince dealing with the tragic death of his father and the subtle remarriage of his mother to his Claudius. The play uses mental health, both real and faked, as a way to show human behavior and emotions. The Prince of Denmark, the title character, and the protagonist, Hamlet is the son of Queen Gertrude and the late King Hamlet, and the nephew of the present king, Claudius. Hamlet is melancholy, bitter, and cynical, full of hatred for his uncle’s scheming and disgust for his mother’s sexuality. A reflective and thoughtful young man, Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts.  Hamlet’s mental state was originally fake to create concern in King Claudius, but ended up truly taking root as people died and his false state of mind had the wrong consequence of what he expected.

from grief due to his father's untimely death. Some people believe that Hamlet has a

A mental illness is described as the alteration in one's behaviour or actions according to their mental stability. For many people around the world, this so called illness, has taken over a part of their lives. It can be argued that Hamlet was accustomed to such illness throughout the play. While portraying confused mindset and thoughts, becoming increasingly more violent and developing suicidal thoughts, the strongest symptoms of his illness become evident. As a result of Hamlet’s constant desire to seek revenge on behalf of his father, he has acquired this mental illness.To begin, the symptoms of his mental illness become evident through his confused thoughts and feelings regarding the revenge of his father. The first instant he shows

Hamlet’s wild, incoherent behavior after discovering the truth of his father’s murder is expected of someone learning of such news. While nonsensical speech can be a sign of madness, in Hamlet’s situation it makes more sense to be a result of shock and anger. The fickle mood of Hamlet can also easily be explained away by the circumstances of his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage. It is understandable why Hamlet would be angry, even violent, with his mother. The short period of time between Hamlet’s father’s death and his mother’s remarriage was worsened by the remarriage being to Hamlet’s uncle.

Insane, or not insane- that is the question. In the book “Hamlet,” by William Shakespeare, he leaves a lot of questions unanswered. A huge thing that he leaves unanswered is whether or not Hamlet is insane or just faking it. Whether Hamlet is insane or not, does not matter. There is a lot of controversy on this subject, but that does matter because the facts are the facts. Even with all the controversy, it is clear through the evidence of the book that Hamlet is marginalized as insane.

The ghost of Hamlet's father explains to Hamlet that his brother, Claudius, murdered him and that if Hamlet does not resolve the crimes of his death he will be stuck in purgatory. The three other men do not hear what is said between Hamlet and the ghost, but they do witness the conversation. Therefore, Hamlet is not insane for claiming to have seen the ghost of his father. Upon seeing the ghost and hearing these truths, Hamlet begins to devise a plan to avenge his father's death; he returns to Elsinore acting insane and overwhelmed with grief as a front for the knowledge he has obtained.