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... Throughout Hamlet, Shakespeare leaves Hamlet’s sanity questionable until careful examination and makes Ophelia’s insanity blatant as to suggest female emotional instability.
Hamlet possess the most complex anima of all the characters within the play. ... However, upon careful analysis, the facts indicate that Hamlet was not insane, but merely used his alleged madness as a guise to conceal his plan to take revenge upon his uncle Cladius. Some scholars believe the very fact that Hamlet considers suicide is reason enough to rule him insane. However, in his famous soliloquy “to be or not to be: that is the question ,” Hamlet looks at the option of suicide rationally and logically. When he states “‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,” Hamlet is weighing the option of suicide in a rational and logical manner. His ability to assesses the advantages and disadvantages of living clearly indicate that Hamlet is rational and sane.
Approximate Word count = 793
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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