Hamlet Essay

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

 Spoken by Polonius while talking to Hamlet about the wrong doings of King Claudius and the scheming with Gertrude, can describe the whole Hamlet play. 9 words, that's all it took. Through the extensive description and detail given by Shakespeare to set the scene of the play and so specifically his syntax and diction, all that anyone needs from this play is 9 words coming together in a simple line. And still this line can apply to every generation of people and will extend to so many more because of the silver lining. As a person and a character within this play, there are actions that are always done in which others may see as insane and crazy, yet to the person whom is performing those actions it is perfectly fine in its entirety. Shakespeare combined the simplicity of 9 words to form the complexity that would span centuries after his time.
 In many instances within the play, Hamlet is seen to be crazy and suspicious of wrong doings by other characters yet in all fairness, every character is acting the same way. From start to finish there are scenes that all major characters within the play have actions that can be seen as ridiculous or over the top and make the character seem 'mad' when Hamlet is simply the only one that is being focused on and ridiculed. I believe this to be so because of the fact that Hamlet is normally seen by his peers as noble and much more prominent in status than he is supposedly 'acting' to be. However, this does not seem to be stopping Hamlet at all. He continues to go through his daily tasks acting as if he was someone completely different not caring what others believe as do all the other characters.
 Each and every character within Hamlet have some action or saying that makes them seem as if they were 'mad' by another person. Yet in their own understanding of what they are doing, it is completely sane and because you accused them of doing something wrong, you were now labeled as the 'madman.' The theme within Hamlet is one of many in which can be inferred by the way that you seem to read and infer situations. In my personal style of reading, I have come up with the idea that everyone believes that their opinion and thought process are correct and have their own coping method in which to justify their head. Each character may or may not be crazy but because of their past and the history behind each persona they all have reasons to be or not to be [mad].