"Hamlet" essay assignment: Hamlet uses his "madness" to confuse people.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:45:43
Category: / Society & Culture / Environment
Length: 2 pages (480 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Environment
Length: 2 pages (480 words)
Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, son to Queen Gertrude and to the late King Hamlet, and nephew/step-son to the new King Claudius. Hamlet is depressed, bitter and full of hate for his uncle and disgusted at his mother for marrying his uncle so quickly after his father died. And in the play he uses his "madness" to confuse, scare and to express some of his true feelings.
In Act II, scene ii, Polonius attempts …
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…he knows they are scared to disagree and to confuse people, by misleading them away from what he really means. Everybody can understand what Hamlet say's, it just that what he says is brutally true and people think he's mad because of that, but he's simply just telling it like it is. Hey may not be mad, but at times in the play it seems that he is very close to the edge of sanity.
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