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1269880 No.1269880 [Reply] [Original]

So guise:

Do you think he was insane? Do you think he was playing insane? Do you think he became insane while playing insane?

>> No.1269884

When the wind was southerly, he knew a hawk from a hernshaw.

>> No.1269890

>>1269884

That he did. But did he do that on purpose? Did it just happen? Did he notice the shift while sane? While insane?

>> No.1269903

>>1269884

aye, but when the wind blew westerly, he knew neither arse nor elbow

>> No.1269918
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>> No.1269920

ITT: obvious samefaggotry

>> No.1269926

I think he was pissed off. His mad ramblings made far too much sense for him to be truly mad.

>> No.1269932

who is that guy?

>> No.1269949

Something rotten is a pussy in Denmark.

>> No.1269961

He did the same thing every emo kid does these days.

If one plays an artificial role long enough or hard enough, it becomes subjectively inseparable from any other facet of one's "native" personality, whatever that may be.

>> No.1269986

I remember this thread. It was fun last time.

>> No.1270022

>>1269961

this is a good answer. it also says a lot about how frighteningly relevant Hamlet is to modern "personae"/"personal brands"/"online identities"

Hamlet would be a tripfag

>> No.1270050

>>1270022

Yeah, and Ophelia would have a Deviantart account and write terrible poetry for a pathetic blogspot.

>> No.1270158

>>1270022

So true it hurts.

>> No.1270266

This play is based on a much older legend of Amleth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_(legend)

>> No.1271316

What evidence is there in the play to suggest that Hamlet went insane?
I thought he was only feigning madness so that no one could be able to catch on to his plan to kill Claudius and avenge his father?

>> No.1271746

>>1270022
which tripfag would he be?

>> No.1271756

But in playing the madman, did he lose sight of what was real and what was an act?

>> No.1271759

I think he was crazy to an extent, but kinda knew what he was doing. He was playing crazy and not playing. Hamlet right?

>> No.1271761

Maybe he went insane, because he was torn between avenging his father and thus killing Claudius, but Claudius was the lover of his mother, so this would sadden his mother. He started out feigning madness, but the choice slowly turned him actually insane.

>> No.1271762

I recently went to see an Hamlet at the theatre and he does come across as slightly insane.

Throughout the play he was indecisive and procrastinated, yet didn't seem to realise that at all, which led to his downfall. Not understanding that by delaying and feigning madness he could hurt others leads himself down the path of insanity, and in my opinion, the transition between acting and madness is complete when he sees Ophelia being buried.

>> No.1271764

The play within the play also helps him along on his way to losing his mind, I believe. He's mixing real life and fiction up quite literally. Also, consider the fact that he stabs that dude (I'm awful, I can't remember his name) behind the curtain, the curtain being symbolic of theatre. It's a case of fiction breaching real life.

>> No.1271767

He just knew more than everybody else (cassandra complex) he was mad in craft!

>> No.1271789

>>1270266
Macbeth is bases on the legend of Acbethm.