Madness and Insanity in Shakespeares Hamlet - Insanity and Hamlet :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

critical point and Insanity The following five paragraphs will cover the point of What is insainity? How does Hamlet tie in with insainity? What or who is the have of insainity? While I try to overcome these questions to tackle the true answers, you will be thinking and deciding for yourself if Hamlet is amok or not. What does insainity? The Websters New initiation Dictionary--Third College Edition defines it as mentally ill or deranged demented mad senseless. My defintion is not as cruel as the dictionarys definition. My opinion of someone that is insane is they dont necessarily have all of their marbles. The definition in the dictionary kind of explains my definition which is someone that is not paying close attention to those around them. The centering people just throw the word insane aroud makes it seem as if its not a real sickness. But the thing is that people dont realize that its not something they should joke about. About three or four years ago, there was a song that was titled Sane and in one part they said, ...youre insane, got no brain... So this little line in the song is also part of the true meaning of insainity. Is Hamlet crazy? I personally dont feel that Hamlet is crazy. I think that because the Queen didnt want to face her past with her first true husband, she labelled Hamlet as someone that is mentally ill, or mad. When we had the reciprocation of what do we think about the topic of your parents paid one of your friends to talk to you to see if youre okay, I think we also covered some good points to reason both sides of the arguement. On one hand people were saying that what the Queen did was wrong because she shouldnt have someone to talk to her son but that she should do it for herself. And on the other side of the arguement, people were saying that they would talk to their friend for the parent but not if they were going to get paid. I dont think that Hamlet is crazy, I feel that he just needed to get his thoughts to gether beca use he was still trying to comprehend that fact that his mother got married to his uncle and she didnt even seem to guardianship about what he felt. What is the cause of someone being insane or who?