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Hayanny Silva cultivate HansenBrit LitDecember 13, 2013 Shakespeare crossroads In sanity VS Sanity The calamity of HamletIn the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare, Hamlet an intellectual prince switches from sanity and insanity throughout the entire play. You can see that during the play when imbecility seems right, he puts on an antic disposition (I.V.173). Nevertheless when Sanity proves to be the answer Hamlet returns to being logical. Hamlet claims he is mad north-north-west (II.ii.376), core he is mad close totimes 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 conquer his obstacles. Hamlet is only insane towards his enemies and his adversarys allies. For example, Hamlet attacks Gertrude verbally and physically, because she is an obstacle to Hamlet. Also, Hamlet kills Polon ius and assures that Polonius is jobless, for a ducat, dead (III.iv.25).When hamlet kills Polonius he feels nonhing, no sympathy, no sorrow, and no fear. His insanity overcame him to the bear down that he would kill someone with not a hence of condole with nor feelings. Hamlet gradually harms Gertrude with his words of insanity, while killing Polonius with his insanity. All of these 2 people, Gertrude, and Polonius, are Claudius allies, and by harming Claudius allies, Hamlet is harming Claudius, which is Hamlets goal.Death of his Hamlet male parent caused a fault in Hamlets logic, and that fault forced the rage on him. Hamlet believes that Gertrude his mother has had an affair with his Uncle and actually aided in the murder of his beloved father. On top of that, Hamle... ... ideas that Hamlet is mad and that Hamlet is not mad. Readers and critics can agree that Hamlet is not a man of meet, just now is instead a man of reflection-reflection that is concentrated on both(p renominal) himself and the world (Schucking 31).I believe it is Shakespeares anger towards corruption and religion that makes Hamlet to authorize into madness. Finding a character in real life of a person endowed with so delicate as to border on weakness with sensibility too 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, one 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 entire play revolves around insanity