Hamlet

             Humans go through many hardships throughout life that may be hard to deal with. Loosing a loved on is a hardship that is very difficult to deal with for most people. Some people even go crazy when they loose someone they love because loss of love is very much connected with the loss of life. People sometimes throw their lives away when they loose a person they love. In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, many characters experience either temporary or complete madness because of the loss of their loved ones.
             Hamlet is one character that experiences insanity when he looses his loved ones. The first person Hamlet looses is his father, who is poisoned, which doesn't directly cause him to go mad until he sees the ghost of his father.
             "Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come; here, as before, never, so help you mercy, how strange or odd soe'er I bear myself-as I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put antic disposition on- that you at such times seeing me, never shall, with arms encumber'd thus, or this head-shake, or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, as 'Well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,' or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,' or such ambiguous giving out, to note that you know aught of me; this no to do, so grace and mercy at your most need help you swear." (28).
             Hamlet is saying that he has been acting mad since he first heard about the ghost of his father. Hamlet and Horatio are amazed at what they are seeing at this moment. Another person that Hamlet looses, who is the main cause of his madness, is Ophelia. Hamlet has to break up with Ophelia because she is stopping him from gaining his revenge; Hamlet has to act like he doesn't love Ophelia when in reality he loves her more and more as t...

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