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Post by hansoo on Feb 1, 2015 8:13:36 GMT
This is just a question that I came up with last week and have been thinking about for a while. All of you have read about Hamlet's recent life circumstances and struggles he had to go through. Do you guys think his madness can be justified under such event? Please reply with according reasons.
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Post by dannyoh on Feb 1, 2015 9:02:10 GMT
All the crap that happens to Hamlet might be the reason why he becomes mad but in reality, I don't think it's a good enough reason to get all crazy. Everyone reacts to situations differently but I don't think he should get this crazy over the events in the story.
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Post by James on Feb 1, 2015 11:00:52 GMT
Yes, Hamlet's madness can be justified under such events. First of all, seeing his mom getting married to his uncle already is messed up as heck; even if it wasn't uncommon back in the days. Also, seeing all those supernatural craps around him definitely would've driven anybody crazy. He also is in a dilemma whether to believe in the ghost or not.
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Post by daniel on Feb 1, 2015 11:39:40 GMT
If I was him, i would be mad too, but not like Hamlet. Ill be mad and not express any anger or act stupid, and i will do my revenge very quietly.
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Post by lukejoo on Feb 1, 2015 11:47:24 GMT
Honestly, I don't think madness is a matter of whether you can justify or not;;;It's not like we see a mad guy and see him do crazy stuff and we say "well, it's not strange for him to be mad after all those things." But that doesn't justify that person's madness and the actions he or she takes. We shouldn't just simply accept that someone is crazy but rather try to find ways to help that person, especially if they're family.
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Post by elisalee on Feb 1, 2015 12:29:20 GMT
I believe that his madness can be justified since he went through very hard conditions. His mom got married to Claudius, who was his uncle, and he saw a ghost that looks like his father and the he is not sure if he should trust the ghost or not because the ghost even told him that it was Claudius who killed his father.
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Post by jimim on Feb 1, 2015 12:54:46 GMT
I think Hamlet's madness should be justified because he found out through ghost that his father was killed by Claudius who is his uncle. He should have got huge shock from it but this was not end because his mother got married to Claudius and Claudius became king. So his madness should be justified and if he did not became mad, I think that is more abnormal.
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Post by estherchoi on Feb 1, 2015 13:13:18 GMT
I also believe that Hamlet's madness should be justified. First of all, Hamlet's father had died, and he is recovering from the loss. Ms.Boyd and people say Hamlet is very childish for not getting over with for over two months, but I kinda understand how Hamlet is still missing his father. He might have had a really close relationship and it really depends on each person for how long it takes to get over with a family's loss. It might take days, months, and even years and those are something people should understand. Second of all, whether or not the ghost is real, to Hamlet it is actual and is very plausible that he get all crazy when the ghost speaks to him and says that his death was not right. Thirdly, Hamlet's mom got married to his uncle right away. Although this practice is normal to that time period, we can see how furious Hamlet is about this in one of his monologues. With all these stress added up, it might even be normal for Hamlet to get mad. It is though kinda extreme. However, I think it is justified.
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Post by saimoon1 on Feb 1, 2015 13:23:58 GMT
I feel like his madness can actually be justified, because his love is ignoring him and his own mother whom he thought to stay loyal to his father, married his father within a few days of his death. I mean if he answers this as his source of madness i don't think anybody would question him.
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Post by chrishong on Feb 1, 2015 14:51:28 GMT
Like you guys, I understand that it's natural for Hamlet to get upset when his mother married his uncle too soon after his father's death. However, I think Hamlet shouldn't get mad and obey his father by avenging his father's death by killing his (Hamlet's) own uncle. Well, it's bad to disobey his father by not killing his uncle, but I still think Hamlet shouldn't kill his uncle because killing a person is morally wrong. I think Hamlet should forgive his uncle instead.
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Post by nerdira on Feb 1, 2015 15:06:38 GMT
I feel like his faking his madness led to him to being insane for real. The whole 'your mind makes it real' is actually real in this case. His mental state might've been fragile after his father's death, but faking madness might've pushed him off the edge of sanity for good. However, as a high born man he must've had a lot of privileges so there was no real reason for him to go mad.
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Post by jmoon234 on Feb 1, 2015 15:16:37 GMT
Losing someone important in life is a painful thing, which can be a great source of damage to the people mentally as well. Hamlet lost his father and not long after that, his mother marries with her cousin. This has changed many things in Hamlet's life which ended up making him mad.
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Post by irin on Feb 1, 2015 15:19:28 GMT
I think madness cannot e justfied. I think I will be mad too because He found out Claudius kiiled his father but by the madness you cannot killed someone because killing is bad for any reason.
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Post by sergeyfen on Feb 1, 2015 15:45:29 GMT
Obviously, losing someone as close your family is very shocking and tragic, going crazy as hamlet did was just over board. I think it's all because of his fake madness that he actually became mad, he stayed in his virtual world of madness for too long that it sucked him in and transfered to real world. Pretending someone who he wasn't led to him actually staying that way. There are lot of cases like Hamlet in our world, many actors and actresses stay in characters after their big shows for the rest of their lives, thinking they are still playing the movie.
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Post by bachle on Feb 1, 2015 19:28:23 GMT
Hamlet just doesn't accept the truth of his death and I think it's the main reason leading to his madness. He feels like his father died in some other ways which he could not answer it and it's stuck in his mind.
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