When people think about the play Hamlet it reminds about revenge and tragedy. Hamlet is a character who has managed to portray himself as suspicious, mistrustful, betrayed and hypersensitive. Although characters in Hamlet suffers from many different physiological disorder. Hamlet, in particular, suffers from Paranoid Personality Disorder. Paranoid Personality
Disorder is a mental illness where people gets suspicious, they starts thinking that other people are going to harm them. It is estimated that one in ten people in U.K suffers from some sort of personality disorder. Studies in United States that have attempted to find the Paranoid
Personality Disorder sufferers have ranged about 2.5% to 5.1% of the…show more content… He can't take decision very quickly. Hamlet, is seriously depressed and starts questioning his existence. He stops believing the others including his mother. During the play, Hamlet shows many types of symptoms which relates to Paranoid Personality Disorder. Paranoid Personality Disorder have a symptom which could tend people to think about the hidden motives about other people have about them as it is a
“nonpsychotic disorder in which person maintains a pervasive and unwarranted tendency, beginning before early adulthood, to interpret the words and actions of people as deliberately demeaning or threatening” (Noll).This disorder tends people to maintain a distance from others as they always see their actions as threatening.Hamlet expresses, “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here,But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,Could force his soul so to his own conceit.”(2.2). Hamlet is being tired of living a lonely life. Hamlet has that passion to deprive Claudius of what he has done to his father. During the play, Hamlet is faced with emotional and physical hardship. Everyone who he has loved and trusted has turned against him. He expressed his anger while questioning…show more content… That is the question—Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—No more—and by a sleep to say we end”(Act 3. 1)Hamlet thinks about whether to live life or he should attack the king.Hamlet feels betrayed about what his mother has to him and his late father.
Hamlet symptoms were also mostly related to Paranoid Personality Disorder. Hamlet feels betrayed after he comes to know that his mother had married Claudius. He feels uncomfortable when he comes to know that Claudius has killed his father. These person may illustrate ideas of relating in an uncomfortable situation which exhibit “extremely odd beliefs or engage in magical thinking, may look odd or unkempt, talk to themselves, speak oddly, have no close friends, have silly or inappropriate affect, or perhaps even be a little suspicious or paranoid”(Fawcett). Hamlet has only one best friend Horatio, who lives at end. Hamlet relates to the idea of speaking oddly, being suspicious on every person around him.Hamlet acknowledges that people should not
