The young Prince Hamlet nature is an erratic and moves to and fro with each scene. His emotional state and mental condition can be determined as he is a thinking soliloquist. Prose is used throughout Hamlet soliloquies; nobles always spoke in verse. With the presentation of the first soliloquy in Act 1 scene 2, shows Hamlet wishing he could take his own life ‘O that this too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew’ (lines 129-130) but his Catholic faith and the fear of purgatory prevents

him’ Or that the Everlasting had not fixed, His canon’ gainst self-slaughter. O God, O God’ (lines 131-132) Although the soliloquy is depressing hearing the long summary of his life and the state of Denmark there is no reason to construe Hamlet is mad in any way shape or form from what we are told. Anger is what is deduced within the first soliloquy towards his mother at his disgust at the sin of incest at marrying and sleeping with her dead husbands brother, and ultimately towards all women ‘ …Frailty, thy name is woman’ (line 145-146) The feeling of imminent dread and doom is hinted upon at this point ‘It is not, nor cannot come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue’ (line 158-159) On the closing of this soliloquy it is interesting to note the fact Hamlet hold his tongue and does not tell his mother what he feels about the whole situation.

In Act 2 Scene 1 the Queen tells us after the King claims that Polonius has found the cause of Hamlets madness, that ‘I doubt it is no other but the main, His father’s death, and our o’erhasty marriage’ (lines 56-57) However Polonius swears blindly that it is a love for his daughter Ophelia. The Queen is convinced of her sons madness by Act 4 Scene 1 as she shows ‘Mad as the sea and the wind when both contend’ (line 7) and also a bit later when she states ‘ O’er whom his very likely madness…’ (line 25)

Hamlets mother, Queen Gertrude tells us that the young Prince’s behavior is ‘…mere madness’ (line 287)

Act 3 Scene 3 is the scene where Claudius has begun to realize that Hamlet knows that his father was murdered and begins to get nervous ‘I like him not, nor stands it safe with us, To let his madness range, therefore prepare you’ (lines 1-2) The King is clearly anxious at this time. Also Act 4 Scene 1 Claudius realizes that it was indeed him that was the intended victim of Hamlet in his mothers chamber and not Polonius ‘ It had been so with us had we been there’ (Line 13) He later remarks to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that ‘Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain’ (line 34) Claudius also says in Act 5 Scene 1 while by the grave of Ophelia ‘ O’ he is mad, Laertes’ (line 274)

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