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Hamlet ICTW Topics 2020 #3

The play, The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, is one of the popular medieval plays that continues to take a center stage in literature. In the play, several instances of madness are portrayed, mainly through the main character, Hamlet. In the context of the play, madness means irrationality of behaviors and beliefs which may be considered inapparent for a normal person. This essay explores instances of madness portrayed through Hamlet and the significance of such cases in the entire play.

At the beginning of the play, Hamlet is visited by his father’s spiritual ghost, which revealed to him that Claudius murdered his father. At this point, Hamlet...