Loss of Health in Hamlet

As the play begins, the reader is placed in the midst of action, otherwise known as ‘med ris’. Therefore, the reader does not see how poor Denmark’s situation actually is as there is nothing to compare it to. Th

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However, his over-indulgence of eating and drinking shows signs of inner weakness and his longing for acceptance.

Hamlet’s character is arguably the oddest case of mental disturbance in the play. For some characters, the truth and reality are two different things; and for others it was the same, only that the reality was not what that character may have wanted. Hamlet is mistaken when he assumes that the person behind the curtain is Claudius, and if he had thought through the possibility of someone other than Claudius eavesdropping, then the situation would have been dissolved. Here he puns on the two meanings of ‘kind’, and adds the hidden message of the proverb ‘the nearer in kin, the less in kindness’. In his own madness, Hamlet turns Ophelia away when he states that he, “’ loves [her] not. Hamlet, on the other hand, seemingly give Ophelia the impression that he wants nothing to do with her. Hamlet shows his insanity further in this act when he exhibits no remorse for murdering Polonius.

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Approximate Word count = 1647
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

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