Assertion: hamlet | /r/HasProperty | mad
Facets:
value: really
type: DEGREE
value: at her
type: LOCATION
value: during a tempest
type: TEMPORAL
value: as the raging sea
type: OTHER
value: quite possibly
type: DEGREE
value: with love for her
type: OTHER
value: with love
type: OTHER
value: because of his foiled love for ophelia
type: CAUSE
value: because of mad
type: CAUSE
value: with love for his daughter
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Claudius realizes that Hamlet is out to get him and professes that Hamlet is mad.
text: The Queen thinks Hamlet is mad (crazy), because she cannot see the ghost Hamlet sees.
text: When Polonius, the pompous Lord Chamberlain, suggests that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter, Ophelia, Claudius agrees to spy on Hamlet in conversation with the girl.
text: The possibility that Hamlet is mad when the play begins forces us to question the truth of everything he says, making his character even more mysterious.
text: Despite the evidence that Hamlet is actually mad, we also see substantial evidence that he is just pretending.
text: For every piece of evidence that Hamlet is mad, we can also point to evidence that he’s sane, which contributes to the mystery of Hamlet’s character.
text: By making the audience constantly question whether Hamlet is really mad or just pretending, Hamlet asks us whether the line between reality and acting is as clear-cut as it seems.
text: The king states that he does not believe that Hamlet is mad because of his foiled love for Ophelia, or really mad at all, but tormented for some hidden reason.
text: He asks Claudius to send Hamlet to Gertrude’s chamber after the play, where Polonius can hide again and watch unseen; he hopes to learn whether Hamlet is really mad with love.
text: Though it is called a soliloquy, Hamlet is not alone when he makes this speech because Ophelia is on stage pretending to read while waiting for Hamlet to notice her, and Claudius and Polonius , who have placed Ophelia in Hamlet's way in order to overhear their conversation and find out if Hamlet is really mad or only pretending, have concealed themselves.
text: First, he instructs Reynaldo in the most incredibly convoluted espionage methods; second, he hatches and pursues his misguided theory that Hamlet is mad because his heart has been broken by Ophelia.
text: It's impossible to know whether or not Hamlet is actually "mad," because our uncertainty about Hamlet's mental state is supposed to mirror the play's general ambiguity and doubt.
text: Based on what Ophelia told him, Polonius concludes that he was wrong to forbid Ophelia from seeing Hamlet, and that Hamlet must be mad with love for her.
text: As the play goes on, it becomes hard to tell if Hamlet is actually mad or still just pretending.
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: " means that Hamlet is only mad when under the influence of his father's ghost.
text: Now not extraordinarily, she thinks Hamlet is mad.
text: Gertrude explains to Claudius that she believes Hamlet is truly mad and that as proof, he has killed Polonius and taken away the body.
text: Seen in the same context, Hamlet is quite possibly as mad as he is pretending to be, at least in an Elizabethan sense.
text: Gertrude tells Ophelia that she hopes it is for love of her that Hamlet is mad; she would not oppose their marriage.
text: She asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to withdraw and tells Claudius that Hamlet is as mad as the raging sea during a tempest and that he killed Polonius.
text: The Queen now believes that Hamlet is mad, and Claudius informs her that he will soon be sent away.
text: Gertrude, who cannot see the ghost, becomes convinced that Hamlet is mad.
text: In the next act, Gertrude tells Claudius of Polonius' murder, convinced that Hamlet is truly mad.
text: Ophelia is of course aware that Claudius and Polonius are lurking in the curtains, but she believes that Hamlet is mad at her because, on her father's orders, she has given Hamlet the cold shoulder.