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Hamlet: Hamlet's Sanity
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“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do
their bounds divide.” Though John Dryden's quote was not made in regard to
William Shakespeare's Hamlet, it relates very well to the argument of
whether or not Hamlet went insane. When a character such as Hamlet is under
scrutiny, ....
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....us, Gertrude,
Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, he behaves irrationally. When Hamlet
is around Horatio, Bernardo, Francisco, The Players and the Gravediggers,
he behaves rationally (Bevington, p. 59).
Some of the characters themselves come to realize that Hamlet is
not mad. Claudius confesses that Hamlet's "actions although strange, do not
appear to stem from madness." (III, i). In addition, Polonius admits that
Hamlet's actions and words have a "method" to them; there appears to be a
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