Hamlet’s_Troubled_Mind

Hamlet’s Troubled Mind Hamlet’s Troubled Mind “ …To be, or not to be: that is the question…” Probably the most quoted line in the history of dramatic literature, not bad, for a madman. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, our hero is haunted by the ghost of his kingly father who was viscously and premeditatedly murdered by the King’s own shameless wife and coveting brother. Imagine if you will a specter of your dead father appearing before you and divulging a secret so intense it plants the seeds of insanity. Tragedy is defined as a form of drama in which a person of superior intelligence and character, a leader of the community, is overcome by the very obstacles he struggles against. Never has there been a more fitting definition written for one character, never has there been a more sorrowful, pitifully tormented human being than Hamlet. Our hero walks on the cliff’s edge of sanity and insanity through out his single-minded task of bittersweet revenge, drifting closer to the edge with every turn of the page. Nothing it seems will veer him from his path of righteousness, not understanding, not reason, not friendship or family, or the mightiest emotion of them all, hamlet, father, love, hamlet’s, king, ophelia, mind, death, own, mother, lost, friends, one, madness, himself, even, horatio, hero, family, ever, claudius, upon, tragic, though, thing, something, shakespeare’s, seems, secret, reason, nor, never, nephew, neither, must