Assertion: hamlet | /r/CapableOf | act mad
Facets:
value: as a way
type: MANNER
value: in keeping with the play
type: OTHER
value: almost
type: DEGREE
value: to fool people
type: PURPOSE
value: originally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Hamlet's originally acts mad (crazy, not angry) to fool people into think he is harmless while probing his father's death and Claudius's involvement.
text: you’ve got to feign madness, you’ve got to be angry, you’ve got to be thoughtful, you’ve got to be in love, you’ve got to be out of love, you’ve to got to decide whether Hamlet is really mad or pretending to be mad.
text: Hamlet acts crazy while waiting for the right moment to kill his uncle, but his uncle is spying on him and guesses the truth.
text: Hamlet, in keeping with the play in general, seems almost to act the madman because he knows in some bizarre way that he is playing a role in a revenge tragedy.
text: Hamlet begins to act his mad pose: gibbering around the court, performing strange actions, jumping around, and dressing in strange clothes.
text: Instead, Hamlet pretends to be a madman, runs around delivering lengthy philosophical speeches, verbally abuses his girlfriend, stabs his girlfriend's father in the guts, and terrorizes his mother.
text: Hamlet quickly sees through the scheme and begins to act the part of a madman in front of them.
text: Another interpretation could be that Hamlet acts mad as a way to express the strong, troubling emotions he can’t allow himself to feel when he’s sane, just as the actor can cry easily when playing a role.
text: The play within a play, the long soliloquies wherein Hamlet faces the audience and speaks to them directly, the vivid discussions of whether or not Hamlet is "acting" mad -- there are many elements of Hamlet that call attention to its status as a play, rather than reality.
text: Especially when pretending to be mad, Hamlet uses puns to reveal his true thoughts, while at the same time hiding them.
text: And since Hamlet pretends to be mad (or actually is mad) and mistreats Ophelia, he is also acting.