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We (as the audience) don't know if Hamlet is actually captured by pirates, or if he is trying to trick Claudius and Laertes!!
We (as the audience) don't know whether Laertes truly forgives Claudius!!
Conclusion
In summary...
To Sum up:
Madness is not limited to one definition as it varies from character and plot
Disorder in specific scenes and in both characters actions, feelings, events in the plot
Today we explored how madness comes in the form of:
- mental illness
- Absurd and ridiculous behaviour (shown in comic relief)
- crazy and disoriented beahviour
"There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for me and here's some for me, we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays"
Discussion Questions
- depression
- insanity
- mental health conditions which alter the way person thinks, acts or feels
- caused by death of King and events which follow it afterwards
1. What are three characteristics of madness? Give three different examples in the play Hamlet other than those mentioned in this presentation.
2. Explain how the comic relief scene is an example of absurd and ridiculous behavior and mental illness.
3. Should an insane person be judged before the cause of the problem is understood?
4. Why does Hamlet put on an "antic disposition"? Give three reasons as to why he fakes his madness.
“O, how the wheels becomes it! It is the false steward that stole his master’s daughter.”
- theme of madness present in play
- protagonist, Hamlet suffers from madness
- many forms of madness
- specifically, Hamlet suffers from mental illness
Thesis: In Shakespeare's Hamlet, characteristics of madness are presented in both the plot and various characters. Overall, Shakespeare portrays madness with complexity, uniqueness, and uncertainty.
- Ophelia goes through character development
-She goes from naive to someone faced with mental chalenges
-The men destroy her emotional stability
“having a serious medical condition that causes a person to feel very sad, hopeless and unimportant: suffering from mental depression” (Merriam-Webster)
“O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon gainst self-slaughter! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the use of this world!” (1.2, 133-138)
So then what is madness?
Is Hamlet truly mad?
What is a crazy and Disordered Atmosphere?
Confused or Messy State
How Hamlet creates a crazy and disordered atmosphere
In Shakespeare's hamlet we can tell that he suffers from two forms of madness:
-ridiculous and absurd behavior
-crazy and disordered atmosphere
“mental illness of such severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis or is subject to uncontrollable compulsive behaviour” (Howes)
“Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell; I took thee for thy better; take thy fortune; thou find’st to be too busy is some danger.” (3.4, 31-33)
crazy and disordered atmosphere
act 4, scene 7:
The Big Picture
We can relate this to the Ebola crisis!
We had some of information about it, like:
What we were not informed of right away was what the government was going to do to protect our health!
How does act 4, scene 7 portray disorder and chaos?
"One woe doth tread upon another's heel,/So fast they follow: your sister's drown'd, Laertes"(4.7.164-165)
General Plot Graph of Shakespeare's Plays
climax
small catastrophe
rising action
Comic Relief = Absurd Behavior
Absurd and Rediculous In Comic Relief
"Give me leave. Here lies the water; good:/ here stands the man; good: id the man go to this/ water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he/ goes, mark you that; but if the water come to him/ and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he/ that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his/ own life" (5.1. 15-21)
Meaning:
The explanation for Ophelia's Unusual Burial:
The clowns know Ophelia went to the water and drowned herself, so how is she being buried in the Christian cemetery?
The water must have went to her and drowned her! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ayiieee! The water is drowning meself!
Think about when you Enter a Grave Yard, What do you feel?
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inciting incident
falling action
large catastrophe
Introduction