individuals no longer have to feel any responsibility for their actions, which can be attributed to another self (as with Hamlet excusing himself to Laertes in Act V scene 2.) It was also believed that madness fluctuated with the weather and wind direction, southerly breezes being the more wholesome to the afflicted mind, hence Hamlet’s comment of (II. 2 377-378) It was also thought that moods and madness were affected by the moon’s cycles and were especially prevalent and violent at a full moon, hence the…
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