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  • crazy and disordered atmosphere
  • mental illness

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!!

Hamlet: Madness

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

Ophelia's Madness Quote 1

What type of mental illness does Hamlet suffer?

Introduction

Ophelia's Madness Quote 2

Hamlet's Madness as a mental illness

"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

What is depression?

How does Hamlet suffer from depression?

Ophelia's Madness as a 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?

  • absurd and ridiculous behavior

Absurd and Ridiculous Behavior

What is insanity?

How Hamlet acts ridiculous and absurd towards others

-Uses manipulative language

-Literary devices such as Puns and Paradoxes

-Double meanings

Quote 1 (absurd and ridiculous behavior)

Quote 2 (absurd and ridiculous behavior)

Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

Polonius: Not I, my lord.

Hamlet: Then I would you were so honest a man.

Polonius: Honest, my lord?

Hamlet: Ay, sir to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

(2.2, 166-170)

Hamlet: A king of shreds and patches

Enter Ghost

Hamlet: Save me and hover o'er me with your wings,

You heavenly guards!—What would your gracious figure?

Gertrude: Alas, he’s mad!

Hamlet: Do you not come your tardy son to chide,

That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by

The important acting of your dread command?

O, say!

(3.4, 104-110)

Is Hamlet truly mad?

What is a crazy and Disordered Atmosphere?

How does Hamlet suffer from insanity?

Absurd behavior: wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate behavior towards others. Ridiculous behavior is deserving or inviting derision or mockery.

Confused or Messy State

Quote 1 (crazy and disordered atmosphere)

But come—

Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself—

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet

To put an antic disposition on—

That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,

With arms encumb'red thus, or this headshake,

Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,

As "Well, well, we know," or "We could, and if we would,"

Or "If we list to speak," or "There be, and if they might,"

Or such ambiguous giving out, to note

That you know aught of me—this do swear,

So grace and mercy at your most need help you.

(1.5, 168-180)

How Hamlet creates a crazy and disordered atmosphere

Reasons

1. To have freedom in order to examine Claudius's guilt

2. To find a way to do what the Ghost asked in order to avenge his father’s death

3. To make people think that he is not a threat so that he could distract the attention from others

4. He could say outlandish things without striking a nerve or creating suspicion

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:

  • Laertes is upset at the Claudius and Hamlet
  • Messenger states Hamlet is captured by pirates and he is coming home

The Big Picture

We can relate this to the Ebola crisis!

  • We panicked!

We had some of information about it, like:

  • What is it?
  • How does it affect us?
  • Is it spreading?

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?

  • Multiple significant events occur in one scene
  • Unsure about characters feelings
  • Queen reports Ophelia's death

"One woe doth tread upon another's heel,/So fast they follow: your sister's drown'd, Laertes"(4.7.164-165)

  • Very little details about significant events
  • Unsure about characters actions
  • Was Ophelia's death an accident or a suicide?
  • The Queen is in a rush indicating urgency.

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

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