How Is Hamlet Intelligent

Hamlet is a very confusing character in the story Hamlet. In this story Hamlet is acting as an insane person towards typical people. This is very debatable because, Hamlet is a person who switches on and off being an insane or sane person. There is many evidence that proves that Hamlet is not actually an insane person. Hamlet is a sane person because of the actions he takes.

In Hamlet, a play written by Shakespeare, Shakespeare conveys many lessons through the actions of the characters throughout the play without directly talking about them. One of the characters that Shakespeare uses repeatedly throughout the whole play is Horatio, Hamlet's best friend. Horatio is loyal and is really the only person Hamlet can completely trust in his hectic life. Horatio is an exemplary guy and he has no ulterior motive unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and their plan to spy on Hamlet to see if he is actually going crazy or if it is all just a scheme. Then you also have Polonius who is supposed to be a person who Hamlet can confide in but really Polonius too betrays Hamlet and spys on him to see if he has any suspicions of his father's murder.

William Shakespeare, in his play, “ Hamlet,” makes a notable statement about the power of words based on how it is said, can be used to manipulate reality and the truth. Throughout the play we see characters toying with reality and truth” buy using words and in turn making people do what they want. One major character that Shakespeare use to portray that theme is Claudius. Claudius, the antagonist of the play, is Hamlet’s uncle and the husband to Hamlet’s mother. By committing murder and marrying the Queen he became the king of Denmark.

Deception: the act of deceiving someone. Throughout The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark deception is a prominent theme. Hamlet uses deception to get revenge on Claudius and restore his father’s honor. In the process of this Hamlet ends up deceiving and hurting the others around him ultimately causing the end of a family’s rule and existence.

In 1992 a notorious serial killer and sex offender named Jeffery Dahmer was put on trial for the the sixteen brutal murders he had committed in Wisconsin. Along with murder, his convictions included cannibalism, necrophilia, and preservation of body parts. During the trial he had many doctors and experts argue whether he was criminally insane or whether he was sane and knew what he was doing during the time of the murders. Although he was diagnosed with multiple personality disorders, Dahmer was found to be legally sane and able to stand trial. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the protagonist acts insane, but there is evidence that it is nothing more than a sham.

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet allow many things to cause them to behave irrationally. She allows Hamlet to consume her thoughts and everyday life. She does not want to listen to anyone’s advice, even if she knows what they are saying about Hamlet is true. Hamlet and Ophelia have a slight age difference and very different mindsets, therefore Hamlet is worried about many other things besides Ophelia. She eventually can no longer handled the feeling of being denied and willingly commits suicide.

In this play Hamlet definitely puts on his own little show. He makes it seem like he is truly crazy. He makes it so everyone around him believes that he is mad. The only people who know that he is faking it, is Horatio and Marcellus. He tells him at the beginning to not turn his back on him.

Since the early times, people have discussed whether those among them are truly sane or not. During the Shakespearian Era, nobody actually understood who was insane and those who were merely more eccentric than most. One of the most debated plays of all time is Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Many professors and scholars have analyzed and questioned Hamlet’s sanity. Hamlet displays the characteristics of sanity throughout the play.

In the final scene of Hamlet, Hamlet says “Being thus be-netted round with villainies, -- Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, they had begun the play” (Shakespeare 131). Hamlet ironically thinks to himself as a character in a play because he is so melodramatically self-conscious. By adding this sense of paradoxical exposure, Shakespeare shows his effort to foreground the fact that the audience is watching a play within the play. Since Hamlet is such a rich character, Shakespeare’s work shows how he has something within him goes beyond what a play is capable of representing.

Shakespeare has created many unique and peculiar characters throughout his works but Hamlet probably has to be one of the most bizarre personas within any of his writings. Hamlet’s simple inability to act upon his father’s death ultimately led to his own demise and destruction of the ones around him. He exhibits multiple times where he fails to follow through with his motives. On one occasion Hamlet misses the opportunity to assassinate Claudius, “...how all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge!... I do not know why yet I live to say ‘This thing’s to do;’...