Hamlet's Madness

Hamlet's madness is quite peculiar. He attempts to use his madness as a disguise of his real intentions to kill Claudius. It seems however, that when one wears a mask too long, he becomes the mask. When one acts in a play for too long, they become the actors and distance themselves from who they really are. So too Hamlet, in his faking madness I believe he actually succumbs to ailment. After such traumatic experiences, from his father's death & his mother union with his uncle it is no wonder that he becomes mad. In Act III scene i , when Ophelia confronts Hamlet to return her love for him, he utterly denies it & throws it back in her face. However, in the next scene during thee play, he makes sexual advances towards her. His indecisiveness is quite telling of calling his sanity into question.