Mack Tragedy and madness

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tragic heroes and madness

  • shakespeares employment of madness in relation to heroes are often used as a form of divine punishment an alternative perspective, madness is utilised as an art of freedom of speech

  • however this freedom of speech deriving from truth can often be taken as something of nonsense and fiction

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madness as interesting

  • the most important and symbolic element in the heroes second phase if the experience of madness

  • one discovers how

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madness in shakespeare

  • in most of shakespeares plays such as hamlet and king lear, madness to some degree is a type of punishment or doom , corresponding to the adage

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insight of madness

  • in both instances of madness in king lear and hamlet, madness has a further dimension , as insight, and this is true also of ophelia