"The dramatic effect produced by Hamlet's personality and behaviour" is Ernest Jones essential concern. He gives a very clear example on how Hamlet's insanity is special and brings the reader towards it. When Hamlet's insanity is compared with that of Ophelia a mayor contrast arises. How is it that Ophelia's craziness ends in death but Hamlets is developed during the entire novel? As Robert Bridges says in his text, The Testament of Beauty, "whereby Shakespeare so gingerly put his sanity in doubt", this calls the readers attention. Questions such as, is he really crazy? start to arise and the reader must keep on reading to discover the answer.
Jones expresses that Shakespeare possesses, "a degree of insight that it has taken the world three subsequent centuries to reach". Looking at this words, Hamlet's character also possesses qualities that no one can easily equal. The attention his craziness gets is a clear example, and how he uses it to his power is another way of showing the reader that he is intelligent and he can do things even if he doesn't see it that way.
With everything that is going on at once in Hamlets life, he has a mayor concern. That is sharing his mother. It was hard when he had to share her with his father, but it is even worse now. Hamlet knows the king got killed by Claudius, adding to that, the queen has married his uncle. Giving no correct mourning to his father.
Hamlet is being torn and tortured by an insoluble inner conflict.
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