well, for the matter of fact all i had to do was make this up and it worked.... i hope. a central motif in the play is trickery or deceit, whether for good or evil purposes. counterfeiting, or concealing one's true feelings, is part of this motif. everyone seems to lie; good characters as well as evil ones engage in deceit as they attempt to conceal their feelings: beatrice and benedick mask their feelings for one another with bitter insults; don john spies on claudio and hero; don pedro and his 'crew' deceive benedick and beatrice. who hides and what is hidden?
The Mask of Deception In William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, the characters exhibited the act of Deception in different forms, in order to attain what they aimed for. The act of deception: to cause someone to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage. This act of deceiving is used in many novels, including Hamlet. In William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, the characters exhibited the act of Deception in different forms, in order to attain what they aimed for. Characters such as Hamlet, Claudius, and Polonius all executed the behaviour of deception in different ways.
He’s useless tricks display vanity and indicate his wastefulness to the audience. The Tempest is a problem play; Prospero is presented with the opportunity for spiteful revenge but realises the importance of forgiveness. Doctor Faustus is a morality play; he never realises the importance of repentance and banishes any opportunity to save himself, which results in his eternal damnation in hell. In the first act of the play, the audience is confronted with a magic fuelled spectacle. We see Prospero with the help or Ariel conjures the tempest.
In the play Hamlet acts mad. He is not crazy however but is merely pretending to be. Before he begins this act he tells Horatio and Marcellus what he is about to do. Polonius notices that there is too much sense in Hamlets charade for him to be truly crazy. Hamlet makes sure his uncle is guilty of murder before enacting his revenge.
A Sane Insanity OPENING SENTENCE. Whether it’s a result of all action no thought or all thought with barely any action, either extreme can drive you to the point of insanity. In Titus we see him insane in one scene and then sane in the next. With Hamlet we see him plan that he’s going to act crazy, oblivious and unintelligent which evidentially will cause him to go insane. Seeing Titus flirt around both sanity and insanity was common.
This makes her questions the sanity of Hamlet throughout the play: "It's worth examining Hamlet's condition and asking whether the apparition is truly there or not"(1). At the beginning it was obvious that Hamlet was pretending to be mad, for example, n Act 3 he was aware of Claudius and Polonius existence and the fact that Ophelia was sent by them to trap him, they use her as a bait to spy on him, that's why he pretends madness, he acts in a weird way as he makes strange expressions and contradictory statements, he acts in a strange way because he knows that he is being watched by Polonius and Claudius. He used clever words in this scene ,his remarks are clearly coming out of the mouth of an intelligent man, "Even so far , Hamlet is not truly insane"(2). She adds that what makes us more convinced of Hamlet's sanity is his plan to perform a play in front of the king; he named the play mouse trap, furthermore "His plan works, and Claudius raises from his seat before the play is over". The play Hamlet's prepare was exactly what has happened between his father and his uncle; this was intentional by him to watch the reaction of the
She frames the Chamberlains for Duncan’s murder and constantly calls on darkness to mask her crimes. She also deceives herself into believing that she could participate in regicide and yet avoid the moral and psychological backlash, and by the end of the play she has become a victim of her own duplicity. Macbeth, the tragic hero, practices deception to achieve his goals, but increasing discards the need for deceit and instead chooses brute force and violence to protect his position. Ultimately, he too fails because of the trickery of the Witches and his desperate determination to delude himself. The Witches appearance in Act 1, Scene 1, sets the tone for the rest of the play.
Temporary Binding- Hamlet pretends to become crazy. He tries to talk to his mother about her decisions following her husband’s death and how Hamlet is “bothered” by them. 4. Infernal Vision- Hamlet kills Polonius unknowingly by pushing his sword through a curtain that Polonius was eavesdropping behind. This led to Ophelia’s insanity and eventual drowning.
Shakespeare had to make recourse to a wholly artificial device in order to show Hamlet in action, or inaction – the soliloquy. Another strain that goes through Hamlet, and a disturbing one, is the abuse by Hamlet of his former beloved and his mother, Ophelia and Gertrude. In his scenes with Ophelia, Hamlet is relentlessly cruel, charging her with a lustful nature, a dishonest heart, a dissembling appearance, and so on. He builds up, in scene three, to an utterly misogynistic rant, beginning, “I have heard of your paintings well enough.” Men in the English Renaissance were obsessed with women’s make-up, which they took to be a symbol of feminine wiles, excuses, manipulations, artifices, and hypocrisies. Shakespeare, especially, has a long rhetorical history with this line of vitriol; it shows up in many of his plays and features strongly in his Sonnets.
Hamlet in his first soliloquy demonstrates his disgust that his mother has allied herself in love and in politics with her late husband’s brother, so soon after his death, “frailty, thy name is woman... to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets”. Claudius is clearly established as the villain in Hamlet, murdering his own brother and then plotting to kill Hamlet. He lies and is deceitful toying with the notion that the appearance of things is not their reality. The audience is privy to the ‘reality’ of Claudius ‘deed’, and of his guilt, through an aside, climactically stating, “then is my deed to my most painted word. O heavy burden!”.