Madness Flashcards
MADNESS & LACK OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY - hAMLET making peace, divorcing himself from all previous action (3rd person) - revenge is not actually HAMLET, HAMLET is an intellectual - first sign of genuine regret? - is he here finally shedding his antic disposition (speaking in iambic pentameter, not prose). Key moment in character arc, for of absolution for hamlet for the audience - make what is about to happen seem more wrong / tragic
In final scene
‘I am punished with a sore distraction.. i gère proclaim was madness. Was ‘t Hamlet wronged Laertes? Never Hamlet. If Hamlet from himself be ta’en away, And when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not. Hamlet denies it. Who does it, then? His madness…his madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy…[the murder was not] a purposed evil’
Hamlet to R&G 2.2
‘I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.’
Hamlet’s discussion of philosophical ideas under guise of madness in front of R&G 2.2
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties’
Hamlet describing madness 2.2
‘I have lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises’
POLONIUS on Hamlet’s madness 2.2
‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’
Ophelia describing Hamlet’s false pretence of Madness 2.1
Ophelia: ‘with his doublet all unbraced…his stockings fouled, ungartered… his knees knocking…as if he had been lossèd out of hell’
POLONIUS on what cause Hamlet’s madness 2.1
‘ This is the very ecstasy of love, who is violent property four, does it self and leads the world to desperate undertakings’
Antic dospotion 1.5
‘I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records…I have sworn’t… I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on’
H to G I’m not mad 3.4
‘it is not madness that I have uttered…do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker’
‘I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft’
G about H’s madness 4,1
‘Mad as the sea and wind…lawless fit…in this brainier apprehension kills the unseen good old man’
To which Ckauiuds replies ‘‘This mad young man..like the owner of a foul disease’
Ophelia’s madness 4.5
Gentleman: ‘She is importunate, indeed distract, her moods needs be pitied…Her speech is nothing.’
Claudius: ‘oh this is the poison of deep grief, it springs all from her father’s death…poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgement’
