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Madness - Coggle Diagram
Madness
Hamlet - positive effect?
The pretended madness if Hamlet causes much mirth - Johnson
"I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft"
"I am mad but north north west"
Wilson Knight early 20th century "Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark"
enjoyment in discourse with ophelia and poloniusenjoyment in discourse with ophelia and polonius
"rogue and peasant slave"
"antic disposition"
Coleridge 19th century - H is full of "meditative excess"
ophelia/getrude
negative effect on women
"mad as the sea and wind when both contend which to the mightier"
"Oh heavenly powers restore him"
causes G unnatural stress and misogynistic tyrades
John pap coffin cradle 1968 freudian interpretation
TS Elliot - G described as "insignificant and passive"
"Hamlet treats ophelia with so much rudeness that seems to be useless and wanton cruelty" - Johnson
Horatio
"we never fully understand Horatio as hamlet never asks"
"It is we who are Horatio" - Bradshaw
leaves him to live and maintain his reputation
"Here sweet lord at you service"
Polonius
scene where he meets hamlet, has a comedic effect
"you are a fishmonger'
"will you walk out the air my lord?" - "into my garden"