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Hayanny SilvaCoach HansenBrit Lit declination 13, 2013 Shakespeare crossroads monomania VS Sanity The disaster of crossroadsIn the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare, Hamlet an intellectual prince switches from sanity and insanity throughout the correct play. You can see that during the play when madness seems right, he puts on an clown disposition (I.V.173). Nevertheless when Sanity proves to be the answer Hamlet returns to macrocosm logical. Hamlet claims he is mad north-north-west (II.ii.376), meaning he is mad sometimes and sane other times. Therefore, to reach his goals, Hamlet switches between sanity and insanity.In the poem, Hamlet switches to insanity to achieve some of his goals. Hamlet uses his insanity to confiscate his obstacles. Hamlet is only insane towards his enemies and his enemys allies. For example, Hamlet attacks Gertrude verbally and physically, because she is an obstacle to Hamlet. Also, Hamlet kills Po lonius and assures that Polonius is dead, for a ducat, dead (III.iv.25).When hamlet kills Polonius he feels nothing, no sympathy, no sorrow, and no fear. His insanity overcame him to the aim that he would kill mortal with not a hence of pity nor feelings. Hamlet gradually harms Gertrude with his rowing of insanity, while killing Polonius with his insanity. All of these two people, Gertrude, and Polonius, are Claudius allies, and by harming Claudius allies, Hamlet is harming Claudius, which is Hamlets goal.Death of his Hamlet father caused a fault in Hamlets logic, and that fault forced the madness on him. Hamlet believes that Gertrude his mother has had an passage of arms with his Uncle and actually aided in the slaughter of his beloved father. On extend of that, Hamle... ... ideas that Hamlet is mad and that Hamlet is not mad. Readers and critics can agree that Hamlet is not a domain of action, but is instead a man of reflection-reflection that is concentrated on both himsel f and the world (Schucking 31).I believe it is Shakespeares offense towards corruption and religion that makes Hamlet to fall into madness. Finding a fictitious character in real life of a person endowed with so delicate as to border on weakness with sensibility alike exquisite to allow of determined action (Sylvia 13).While its difficult to point out the exact cause in Hamlets life that lead to his insanity, adept thing is for certain he went mad, and the madness did to him what it does to everything that holds madness it destroys whatever it touches. Insanity in The tragedy of Prince Hamlet over powered sanity which concludes that the inbuilt play revolves around insanity