Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Mad Hamlet
I think I am going to write about how Hamlet is really mad, it is not faked. I think I can start by saying how he is mad from the beginning, with the speech about committing suicide being one of the first things he says in the play. Some other things I can add are the "to be or not to be" soliloquy and how he tells his mother that he is genuinely very sad about his father's death. This all happens before he ever says that he might pretend to be mad, except for the "to be or not to be" which he only says to himself, so it can be believed. Those are just the first few things that came to mind, so any other suggestions would be appreciated, because I know there are some more examples I could use to prove that Hamlet is truly mad.
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Mitchell,
ReplyDeleteThis seems like a fine approach to the assignment, but whereas this forum (the class blog) is meant to be a place to explore informally--and at LENGTH--your own ideas, I'm a little disappointed to find this post so short (we had the entire class to work on this after all). Rather than do your work for you (that is, go back through the play and locate all the specific passages and scenes that might be useful to you in developing and defending a these (which you have yet to settle on), I'll encourage you to do this on your own, and will wait for your first draft (which I hope will provide me more to respond to). Next time we blog, try to push yourself beyond "just the first few things that [come] to mind."