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Hamlet's Madness and
How Other Characters Explain It
| Polonius |
"How say you by that? Still
harping on my daughter. Yet he knew me not at first--a said I was
a fishmonger. A is far gone, far gone, and truly, in my youth I
suffered much extremity for love, very near this." (2.2 187-90)
"But yet do I believe / The
origin and commencement of this grief / Sprung from neglected love"
(3.2 175-7)
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| Gertrude |
"I
doubt it is no other but the main-- / His father's death and our o'er-hasty
marriage" (2.2 56-7) |
| Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern, with Hamlet |
Rosencrantz:
Good my lord, what is the cause of distemper? You do freely bar the
door of your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend.
Hamlet: Sir, I lack advancement.
Rosencrantz: How can that be when you have the voice of the King himself
for your succession in Denmark? |
| Hamlet,
when with Ophelia |
"God
hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig,
you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your
wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't. It hath made
me mad. I say we will have no more marriages." (3.1 142-47) |
| Claudius |
"Love?
His affections do not that way tend, / Nor what he spake, though it
lacked form a little, / Was not like madness. There's something in
his soul / O'er which his melancholy sits on brood, / And I do doubt
the hatch and the disclose / Will be some danger" (3.1 161-6) |
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