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Essay / Is Hamlet Mad Analysis - 1017
Hamlet was getting very stressed (Hamlet.2.2.593-598) “Yet I am a dull, muddy rascal, on top like John-a-dreams, not pregnant with my cause, and I can't say anything, no, not for a king whose possessions and dearest life have been inflicted in damned defeat. Am I a coward? It is Hamlet's excessive thinking process that has filled his head with doubt and causes people to think that he is going crazy. This is not the case. Hamlet was depressed and felt like he was letting his father down. But he knew that if he continued his revenge, he would most likely go to hell. The famous “To be or not to be” (Hamlet.3.1.86-88) “But what fear of something after death, the unknown land from which no traveler is born