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Masterpiece mentor?
I found this guy's website http://www.onceuponasaga.dk/ long story short this man is visiting every country in the world without flying. I've emailed him and am currently waiting on a reply
Hamlet (The Madman)
Did Shakespeare write Hamlet as crazy? Well, no he didn’t, Shakespeare is a brilliant playwright. The plays Shakespeare has written are so good because he makes them so believable. Most people would tell you they think Hamlet is crazy, but when you really look at the play and analyze all the evidence and take into account Hamlet is a very young man you start to see just who Hamlet really is: a mastermind. Think back to when Hamlet made the guards swear Hamlet straight up tells them “I’m going to be acting weird; don’t you think you understand what I’m doing.” So from the beginning Hamlet is sure what he’s going to do. One of the recurring themes in Hamlet is drama and theatre. After taking a closer look Hamlet is a great actor being able to fill any role that he needs to this coupled with how quick witted he is makes him such a strong adversary. Hamlet just needed to set up the groundwork for his plan. Making it seem as though Hamlet were crazy gives him the protection he needs to carry out his plan. Hamlet’s plan played out exactly as he wanted. One reason you may think Hamlet is crazy is because of how hard on himself he is. This could be a good reason for someone to be crazy, but think about it; Hamlet’s dad just died, and his mother married his uncle who killed his father, and to top it all off the ghost of his father just told him to go kill his uncle. Wouldn’t any normal person going through this understandably have some major internal conflicts you certainly wouldn’t think they were crazy? And that brings us to the ghost of Hamlet’s father. If Hamlets not crazy then why didn’t Gertrude see the ghost? Putting aside the possibility that Gertrude could’ve straight up lied to Hamlet about not seeing the ghost, for which she has motive for, the ghost could’ve simply not chosen not to be seen by her or it could’ve even been a metaphor for Hamlet’s conscience, but the fact that the guards saw the ghost themselves dismisses the idea that the ghost is anything, but real. Hamlet talks to himself a lot and he speaks of really deep philosophical questions. Hamlet also talks about how weak he thinks he is because he just thinks and talks about his duty instead of just finally doing it. This increases Hamlet’s inability to perform the actual physical action of killing Claudius. Everyone has a temper and everyone eventually snaps. Hamlet is no exception; after killing Polonius Hamlets goes off on Gertrude. Hamlet’s too good of a tactician to give away the status of his sanity at this point in the play. Doesn’t it make more sense that he snapped because he killed a (kind of) innocent man and is racked with guilt, taking his frustrations out on the nearest person? This is the only scene where Hamlet is really mad (in the sense of feeling anger because his frustrations). Hamlet isn’t crazy; Hamlet’s just crazy good at what he does.
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