Is Hamlet Mad?
Beginning of paper
Perhaps the world's most famous mental patient, Hamlet's sanity has been
argued over by countless learned scholars for hundreds of years. As a mere
student of advanced-level English Literature, I doubt I can add anything new to
the debate in 2000 words, but I can look at the evidence supporting or ....
Middle of paper
.... God had not forbade suicides from going to
heaven. This is also the first glimpse of another recurring theme in the play,
that of Hamlet's unhealthy obsession with the afterlife. This is one of the
reasons that the ghost of his father has such an effect on him, which is a
trigger for all the subsequent events in the play.
Moving on to the fourth scene, the next interesting speech is on l. 23. It is a
long and complicated speech, but its general gist is that if a person has one
fault, no m ....
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Word count: 2011
Page count: 8 (approximately 250 words per page)
