Madness Flashcards
“As if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors… mad for thy love?”
Not definite, level headed, ghost - irony- loose her to him, melancholic people : terrible delusions, mythical, audience knows ghost exist, pol jumps to conclusions : men forget all “sense of proportion and common sense… it can be defined as melancholy anguish.”- Gordon (Doctor, unrequited love, hero)
“Nothing at all”
Only hamlet can see ghost now - common in literature of period: chooses only him OR imagination?
Metaphorical: get sees nothing, blind, misunderstanding
“Mad as the sea and wind when both contend… in his lawless fit”
Ham told her he was pretending, protecting him/ strengthening relationship? Hyperbole - exaggerated, deceiving husband, withholding information OR GER is getting him in trouble, rhetoric- meaning of Ham a threat / liability / out of control, nativity/ good intentions? Submitting to - sees Hams madness?
Hams grief
“A fault to nature”
Hams grief was seen as unreasonable, abnormal
Melancholy: an Eliz disease caused by an excess of black bile- was thought to lead to madness - Ham’s taste for black clothing, somber, indicator he was afflicted
