Why Is Hamlet Fake

Everything Hamlet does is a plot to make everyone around him think he is insane so he can still get revenge on Claudius and everyone who was part of the murder of King Hamlet. Everything that hinted towards him being insane, like thinking about suicide, was just a ploy to trick everyone into thinking he was crazy. He even stated to his best friend that he was going to fake his inanity to distract people. Hamlet tells Horatio “How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet, To put an antic disposition on), That you, at such times seeing me, never shall— With arms encumbered thus, or this headshake, Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,” he is telling him that no matter what he cannot let anyone know that he is acting crazy. When Ophelia calls him crazy, he insures her that he is actually not crazy at all but smart.

Ta-Nehisi Coates in his article, A Case for Reparations (2014), argues that reparations for the institutionalized racism, manipulation, and downright theft that society has exhibited towards African Americans since the years before an independent America even existed should hold an important place in today’s discussions regarding race. Coates supports his assertion by recounting the stories of victims of countless racist housing schemes, such as redlining, sharecropping, and “on contract” home sales, as well as illustrating the truth of white supremacy by writing, “When we think of white supremacy, we picture Colored Only signs, but we should picture pirate flags”(53). Coates’ purpose is to ignite discussion of reparations through mechanisms

Then, in Act III, Scene I, Claudius and Polonius listen in on the conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia for the purpose of establishing whether or not Hamlet’s madness originates from his obsession over Ophelia. However, before we, the audience, witness this encounter, we already think we know more than Claudius does since we know, by Hamlet’s own word, that he is only acting crazy, and that he is doing it to disguise the fact that he is actively studying and plotting against his murderous uncle. In light of this, we the audience believe that Hamlet’s love for Ophelia cannot be the source of his madness. Yet, Hamlet’s vindictive attitude toward her throws everything we think we know into question. Does Hamlet mean what he says to Ophelia? To be sure, it is another question for a later date.

Fischer’s view is not incorrect, though it contradicts Byles’s view. Byles’s view is that Ophelia’s madness is derived from the fact that throughout her life she has depended on the men in her life and is really very angry at all of them for one reason or another. Ophelia is never allowed to speak for herself, her opinion is never heard; generally she just sits tight and let’s the men do the talking. Ophelia just goes with whatever she is told and does not argue about it. There is a ton of evidence from the play that clearly sheds some light on her dependence and obedience to the men in her life.

The character, Ophelia, in William Shakespeare s play, Hamlet, plays a very interesting and important role in the elaboration of the plot. There has been quite a discussion surround the character, Ophelia, in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. Some believe that she never delves in the realm of insanity. They believe that she just acts out, unhappy with her current life circumstances. However, this is not the case. After everything this woman deals within the play, she does indeed succumb to pure madness. At first, he starts in a healthy mind state. She’s in love with her boyfriend Hamlet, yet controlled by her father regarding their relationship. During the play, she encounters several troubling experiences involving Hamlet, which cause her to become distressed. Near the end, the death of her father leaves Ophelia mentally unstable and in a state of madness. Her madness will eventually lead her to death. Due to all the unfortunate events that take place, Ophelia gradually becomes mad, and in the end, passes away.

Hamlet is a character which has gone through a lot.Throughout the play it is not sure if he has gone insane or if he is just truly pretending to be. Needless to say he went through some things that could make anyone go insane. In such a short amount of time his life turned upside down. His dad died, which by itself can make anyone go crazy. To make matters worse shortly after his dad dies, his mom decides to marry his uncle. His uncle who becomes king after he murders Hamlets dad. Although Hamlet does do many things that would make you think he is insane, acting insane is just part of his plan.

The other day, my friend told me how much she hated one of the girls in her class, and then I saw her hanging out with the same girl at a party. The word "fakes" is used by a lot of millennials to call a group of people who appear as one thing, but is actually another. The most common situation the word would be used in are when a group of girls are friends with this other person, but when she isn't around they talk bad about her. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, there are a lot of fakes. Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Claudius, and Gertrude all appeared one way, which messed with other people's lives. Appearance conflicts the reality of people's lives in Hamlet.

Hamlet can be best described as a compelling story of revelation, revenge, and tragedy. If a reader looks at the main situation through Hamlet's point of view, it would be easier to understand and relate to the storyline. Due to the events that occurred at the beginning of the story, I believe that Hamlet feigns madness because he is determined and smart enough to avenge his father's death by executing a secret plan for murdering Claudius, his father's brother. There are several ways that Hamlet pretends to be insane in the play. The "madness" begins in Act I when he has significant encounters with his father's ghost.

This is the woman she might have become – warm, tolerant and imaginative. Instead she becomes jagged, benighted and imaginative. . . .Ophelia is made mad not only by circumstance but by something in herself. A personality forced into such deep hiding that it has seemed almost vacant, has all the time been so painfully open to impressions that they now usurp her reflexes and take possession of her. She has loved, or been prepared to love, the wrong man; her father has brought disaster on himself, and she has no mother: she is terribly lonely. (73-74)

Throughout the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, there are many reasons why one may think he is truly insane. Although it may seem that way at times, he is just a man trying to put together an impossible problem, doing his best to make it by. He struggles through day and night about what to do and it all leads down to one choice; faking madness. Hamlets actions and attitude all have a purpose, and that purpose is to seek revenge for his fathers death.

Throughout the story of Hamlet, there is a lot of betrayal and revenge seeking people. These ideas of revenge make people, such as Hamlet, seem insane. He is seeking revenge against his uncle, King Claudius, for killing his father and then marrying his mother. Hamlet then goes crazy and insane when the ghost of his dead father asks him to seek revenge. His friends and family think he is full of pure madness, but he is actually faking it so it is easier for him to get revenge.

Ophelia is seen towards the end of the story wandering around singing “I’m a girl below your window waiting to be your Valentine,” and talking nonsense, in a kind of mood that can only be described as mania (Shakespeare 239). Mania is the feeling of excessive euphoria that

Through the course of the play, Hamlet both feigns madness and experiences real madness as a result of his father’s death and his quest to avenge him until his need for vengeance drives Hamlet into single-minded insanity; Hamlet’s psychosis is not that he is unable to control himself and that his actions have no thought behind them, but that the only thing that matters to him is revenge, and everything else does not matter. The constant questioning of Hamlet’s sanity is present in the play because Hamlet is neither completely sane nor completely insane. Hamlet’s fictitious mania is a cover for his real madness, to allow him to get revenge for his father’s death while not allowing Claudius to be completely sure that his death is what Hamlet

The first scent of insanity comes from the guards who begin to notice Hamlet’s dead father, the old King, has started walking among the parapets at night, leading some to believe their own madness. At the same time, Hamlet himself is growing crazier from grief and anguish at his father's untimely death, even wishing, “O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,...” (Shakespeare 1.2.133). Upon learning how his father died, he pledges to himself and his friends in a odd plot to act insane in order to get the truth out of his uncle, King Claudius, and in telling Horatio, “(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on)” he assures them that he will remain perfectly sane under the new guise (Shakespeare 1.5. 191- 192). However, this breaks down and the thirst for avenging his father drives him to the brink of madness until the bitter end when he realizes his goal.

Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is about a young prince who wants revenge when he learns about the murder of his father. As the play begins, Hamlet’s character appears to be a normal, sane person. Moving through the acts Hamlet’s personality changes from normal to depressed. There are hints of insanity that try to convince people Hamlet is “mad”. Others might say that Hamlet is faking madness to pursue his goal of revenge. First, he sees a “ghost” that tells Hamlet who killed his father and married his mother. Was this a dream or was this real? Second, Hamlet kills more than one person to avenge his father’s death. Where these accidents or intentional? “Insanity: a legal term for mental illness of such degree