Hamlet's Madness Quotes
Two brief excerpts expose Hamlet’s erratic side. One reduces the frenzy to symptoms—pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities—while the other shows a woman tangled in straw, hinting at prince’s ripple effect. For deeper study, see Shakespearean Tragedy, Madness in Literature, or Psychology of Characters.
![“GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment…” quote by Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/897/tom-stoppard-437_fitness_guil-it-hamlet-s-madness-really-boils-do_2457780.jpg)