FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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both their brothers died
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They were both due to grief
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They weren’t
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet and Ophelia both display symptoms of it, but each become mad for different reasons. Hamlet’s madness is fueled by his father’s death and his desire to seek revenge on the man who killed him. Ophelia’s madness stems from her lack of identity and her feelings of helplessness regarding her own life.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlets feigned madness compares to Ophelias genuine madness in many ways. Two ways in which they are similar is that both were caused by the death of a loved one. Hamlets was caused by the news that his fathers brother Claudius murdered his father. Ophelias madness was caused by the murder of her father, Polonius.
Detailed explanation-3: -For the Elizabethans, Hamlet was the prototype of melancholy male madness, associated with intellectual and imaginative genius; but Ophelia’s affliction was erotomania, or love-madness.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet uses Ophelia for his own personal gain, he toys with her emotions by making to seem as though she is the cause of his madness. Hamlet emotionally abuses Ophelia with no regard for her psychological well-being.
Detailed explanation-5: -Laertes listens to Ophelia’s troubling songs, noting that her madness says more about the depths of her grief than sane words ever could. Ophelia begins passing out invisible flowers-she gives out rosemary, pansies, fennel, and daisies, but states that all her violets withered with the death of her father.