The interpretation which best fits the evidence best is that Hamlet was suffering from an acute depressive illness, with some obsessional features. He could not make a firm resolve to act. In Shakespeare's time there was no concept of acute depressive illness, although melancholy was well known.
Hamlet's misogynistic behavior toward Gertrude and Ophelia can be seen as evidence that Hamlet really is going mad, because these scenes have little to do with his quest for justice yet seem to provoke his strongest feelings.
Some example of Hamlet actually slipping into madness are when, he kills the wise Polonius when Hamlet finds him spying on him while he is having a conversation with his mother. The second example of him going into insanity is when he performs the great speech about whether to be or not to be.
Ophelia is a character in Hamlet who is shown to be diagnosed with the mental illness “Schizophrenia”. Her diagnosis within the first acts of the play is weak, however, her mental illness reaches its peak in act 4, as a cluster of schizophrenia's symptoms are shown.
Hamlet confesses his feelings of melancholy and sadness, which results in him becoming mentally unstable. In addition to his obsession with death, Hamlet's inability to act on his desire for revenge drives him deeper into madness.
Hamlet faked his madness at the beginning of the play for the sake of revenge for his father.
Hamlet has the problem of procrastination and cannot act from emotions due to a lack of self-discipline. He is a man of reason and denies emotions so that his search for the truth of whether Claudius killed his father is satisfied.
Abstract. By means of contemporary diagnostic criteria, Prince Hamlet may be demonstrated to be a Bi-Polar I Manic Depressive. Because current genetic research suggests that this disease is inherited, it is logical to ask if Claudius also suffers from this disorder. It can be demonstrated that he does.
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet's biggest adversity is his own mind. Hamlet shows symptoms of Schizoaffective disorder, a subtype of schizophrenia that causes delusions and severe depression.
Hamlet is cruel to Ophelia because he has transferred his anger at Gertrude's marriage to Claudius onto Ophelia. In fact, Hamlet's words suggest that he transfers his rage and disgust for his mother onto all women.
The interpretation which best fits the evidence best is that Hamlet was suffering from an acute depressive illness, with some obsessional features. He could not make a firm resolve to act. In Shakespeare's time there was no concept of acute depressive illness, although melancholy was well known.
What do Harry Potter and Hamlet have in common? The classic fictional characters are both believed to have borderline personality disorder (BPD). This mental illness is often mistaken for bipolar disorder or depression, because of the similarities in their symptoms.
He mentally becomes less and less sane. Shakespeare makes the reader think that Hamlet has only continued to deteriorate his credibility and break family bonds, causing him to have a borderline personality disorder.
By this point, Ophelia would be well aware of her pregnancy, and well aware that she would soon begin to show outward signs of it.
After Ophelia's death in the gravedigger scene, Hamlet reconfirms his love for Ophelia stating that he had always loved her and says after finding out that she's dead that “Forty thousand brothers, could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”
Though Hamlet perhaps had no predisposition to mental illness, he certainly wasn't in any way in a mentally healthy place by the end of the play, when he was so stripped down from the young man he used to be that his only purpose in life was to finally kill his uncle and then die.
Hamlet remains sane throughout the entire play and uses his false insanity as a way of tricking Claudius and his cohorts. At no point during the play does Hamlet display signs of actually being insane, he simply uses the false pretense of insanity to attempt to achieve his goal of revenge.
Prince Hamlet has two problems. Firstly, in the wake of his father's death, trying to figure out how to move through the grief process. He's also depressed. This is clear both through how he talks about his own feelings and how other characters react to him.
A second mental disorder that Ophelia could be diagnosed with is borderline personality disorder. Symptoms of borderline personality disorder include fear of abandonment, impulsiveness, and trouble with interpersonal relationships. These symptoms show strong relation to the way Ophelia acts in the story.
Hamlet is severely traumatized by the Ghost's recollections, which leave him both certain and uncertain that his father was killed by his uncle as well as of his mother's collusion with him or, at least, of her betrayal of the memory of her recently deceased husband.
In the aftermath of his father's murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives.
In modern medical terms, Hamlet is mentally ill, but not psychotic – or at least not psychotic enough to be legally insane. But his decision to pretend to be severely psychotic is not merely a case of malingering. It is part-and-parcel of his mental illness.
Shakespeare's tragic hero Hamlet's fatal flaw is his failure to act immediately to kill Claudius, his uncle and murderer of his father. His tragic flaw is 'procrastination'. His continuous awareness and doubt delays him in performing the needed.
The events narrated by Shakespeare in his tragedy Hamlet1 are the following: King Hamlet of Denmark dies suddenly and his brother Claudius a few weeks later marries the widow, his sister-in-law, Queen Gertrude; according to the official explanation, a snakebite was the cause of his death.
Hamlet kills Claudius to get his revenge in Act V by poisoning and stabbing him. Unfortunately, Hamlet was poisoned in the duel and is dying as well, but he is satisfied with his revenge. The only thing he regretted was waiting so long to get it.