Hamlet Madness And Action Analysis

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Shakespeare choose Hamlet to develop madness which is the agent or main ingredient that related both action and inaction to Hamlet’s way of thought and actions. This means that Hamlet’s madness led him to both committee actions and giving up on himself showing the viewers inaction. The ability of taking action is presented tons of times during the timeline of the story but Hamlet chose to wait and waste a lot of good chances.
First of all, let us talk about how madness contributes to and develops the central idea of action. In act 2.2 lines 624-629 Hamlet states, “Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks. I’ll tent him to the quick. If he do blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen.May be the devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape”. Connecting it back to the central idea, this means that Hamlet really thought for a moment that he is really insane to the point
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In act 3.3 Hamlet was spying on his step father claudius and had the opportunity to get rid of him and finally comfort himself and get revenge ,but he could thanks to the fear and weakness of hamlet. In act 3.3 Hamlet lines 92-93 states that, “ No. Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent”. This quote shows the fear and confusion Hamlet was in at this moment. This isn't the only Quote that shows how shakespeare develop action by madness but there is also another quote in 4.4.35-37 Hamlet states, “What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,no more”. This quote states that Hamlet thinks of himself as a monster because he didn’t take revenge while he had the opportunity. To sum up everything, Hamlet’s Madness switches his action to inaction because of his fear of making a wrong decision and also his fear of