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Essay Galaxy - Hamlet: Method in the Madness
Hamlet: Method in the Madness
Method in the Madness: Hamlet's Sanity Supported Through His Relation to
Ophelia and Edgar's Relation to Lear
In both Hamlet and King Lear, Shakespeare incorporates a theme of madness
with two characters: one truly mad, and one only acting mad to serve a
motive. The madness of Hamlet is frequently disputed. This paper argues
that the contrapuntal character in each play, namely Ophelia in Hamlet and
Edgar in King Lear, acts as a balancing argument to the other character's
madness or sanity. King Lear's more decisive distinction between Lear's
frailty of mind and Edgar's contrived madness works to better define the
relationship between Ophelia's breakdown and Hamlet's "north-north-west"
brand of insanity. Both plays offer a character on each side of sanity, but
in Hamlet the distinction is not as clear as it is in King Lear. Using the
more explicit relat....
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