Essemtial Question 7

It is believed that Hamlet has started to lose his sense of reality. In his conversation with Polonius his speech had so much depth and meaning he really did take on the persona of madmen’s rambling. While talking to his friends he says, “I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory” (101). Hamlet has even noticed that he has changed and lost a sense of himself. Since the beginning of the story Macbeth has had a pessimistic outlook on life because of his father's death and the quick marriage of his mother. He says, that "Denmark's a prison"(99) and that the world is one as well. He is calling his birth place where laughed and played into a hellish prison: whereas a true prince would never diminish the name of his country. After the talk with his ghostly father he was burdened with an obligation to kill Claudius for the sake of his father's peace. With his own parents questioning his sanity by spying on him and Ophelia ignoring his dire love for her. He is starting to lose in touch with the world around him. With all the events that had unfolded in this young man’s life it is inevitable for him to start acting a bit over the top.