... statements I have listed above. However, I will take a stand with Coleridge and speak about Hamlet's genius and cognitive activity. Hamlet's true dilemma is not one of sanity -Vs- insanity; but one pressing his intellectual capacity. Being a scholar, Hamlet is prone to thought rather than actions. "Cause of Hamlet's destiny. . . in intellectual terms ... Hamlet if he knows Polonius. when Hamlet replies wittingly, Polonius is assured that it was the talk of a mad man. "Do you know me, my Lord? . . . excellent well. You are a fishmonger . . ."(II.II. 173-4) For in the ordinary sense "it is...

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... play, and feeds on it for its own meaning. In fact, one would have no idea what was going on in Stoppard's play without a good understanding--a complex, analytical understanding, even--of Hamlet. The artificiality of the play is one of its major characteristics: we can never suspend our disbelief ... the story, then they leave. When their time has come, they seem ready, though they have been fighting the idea. They give up. "Oh well," says Guildenstern. "I"m relieved," says Rosencrantz. Though they share some qualities with Beckett's characters, who desperately and futilely search for a ...

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