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...; believe none of us.” (Act 3, Scene 1, line123) ne minute Hamlet tells Ophelia that “I did love you once.” Then in his next line he says “I loved you not.” (Act 3, Scene 1, line 125) This quick change in moods suggests that he was mad. Throughout scene three Hamlet seems mad. The rage he expresses towards his mother, he killed Polonius in a fit of madness, and also when Hamlet seniors ghost appears to him. This is the point in the play when Hamlet seems the most mad. In all of the other instances, everyone was able to see the ghost; but in this scene the ghost can only be seen by Hamlet. When Hamlet starts speaking to the ghost even his mother thinks that he is mad: “This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy is very cunning in.”(Act III, sc. iv, line 40-45) When the queen reports this deed to Claudius, she sates the he was, “Mad as the sea and wind.” (Act IV, sc. i, line 10-20) When Hamlet goes before Claudius to confess for the murder of Polonius, he refuses to tell where the body went, and seems to make a joke out of the whole thing which shows he thinks murder is a joke and shows he may be mad because murder is funny to him. Even when telling Claudius where the body was, he seemed to take the whole incident as a joke. “You shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.” “He will stay till you come.” Hamlet's madness is not only evident in his actions and words, but sometimes in his thoughts. Another action that proves Hamlet is mad is when Gertrude states, " mad as the sea and wind when both contend,"(Act III, sc. ii, line 60-67 ) Hamlet is visited by his father's ghost and finds out about an awful murder. The ghost reveals ...

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