Hamlet is much closer to his mother than is to Claudius. Therefore Hamlet feels more emotion when dealing with her, “Come, come and sit you down. You shall not budge. You go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you”(III:iv). Hamlet’s anger stems from his mothers hasty remarriage to his uncle and her incestuous acts. It’s this emotion/anger that drives out Hamlet’s deep suppressed feelings of anger, “But to live in the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed, stewed in corrupti

From this point on Hamlet begins to wear a “mask of madness” using insanity as scapegoat to insure that even if he caught he will not be put to death. This mask falls into one of many double binds that Hamlet must face. Even if he is not put to death and is pardoned from committing the crime, he is still locked up for life. We can see Hamlet’s plan to trick the others when he goes to Ophelias room in a state of madness, “Pale as his shirt, knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors”(II:i). Another reason he uses a “mask” is to hide his true feelings and perhaps allow some aggression to be played out through it. Though, it is this very same mask that begins to fit his face. We can start to see his secret becoming a splinter in his mind, as if thoughts become two sided. Yet another hint into Hamlet’s madness appears in Act III:ii, by which he already stages a play and by doing so, will let him know the truth of his Father’s murderer and at the same time allow Claudius to see his plan. After the he decides Hamlet then tries to logically reason which direction in life, or choice, is dignified to pursue. Hamlet first makes the choice then he decides which one is better. This is not the reason of a stable individual. “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them”(III:i). Hamlet’s solution is that the nobler choice would be to take up arms against his troubles, and by doing so he risks immanent death. This choice is the more noble one according to Hamlet, “To die, to sleep- To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come”, “Thus conscience makes a coward of us all”(III:i). Hamlet tries to reason out his thoughts allowing us to see that he is thinking clearly, however his thoughts are not of solid state.

on, honeying and making love over the nasty sty- ”(III:iv)

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Hamlet King, Act IIIii, Claudius Hamlet, Claudius Fortinbras, Rosencrantz Guildenstern, Prince Denmark, Hamlet’s Fathers, William Shakespeare, Directly Claudius, Guildenstern Hamlet, play hamlet, tragic fault, kill claudius, hamlet tries, claudius hamlet, revenge hamlet, stages play, throughout play, rosencrantz guildenstern,