Hamlet
English 12 As a result from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, many people have questioned Hamlets madness. This has been a topic of debate for numerous critics. Some believe he is truly crazy and others think he is just feigning craziness to advance his plot to revenge his father’s death. Others also think that Hamlet’s actions were just a way for Shakespeare to extend his play. I think Hamlet wasn't insane at all, but a sane genius, who's personality was created as a creative plot device to prolong the play by Shakespeare. George Bernard Shaw, a critic of Hamlet’s madness, considers Hamlet to be mad, but yet an "inspiration in disguise, since a man who has more brains than his fellows necessarily appears as mad to them as one who has less."(George Bernard Shaw). This quote fits the people’s thought of Hamlet’s being insane in a sense. People perceive Hamlet to be mad because they don't have the intelligence that Hamlet has to understand clearly what he is saying. Many characters in Shakespeare play thought Hamlet was going insane because of the gibberish he was speaking. But what Hamlet was really saying was
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Approximate Word count = 782
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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