In Northrop Fyre's essay, it shows a very different point of view compared to other analytical essays I have encountered. Actually, it is the essay that I most relate to, and agree with. He mentions something very unique, instead of using knowledge as an answer for Hamlet's madness, as Freud did, he uses the action behind a thought to explain it. He gives an example with Claudius, saying that although he was a very good man, by committing the act of killing his own brother, he already ruined his own ideal of who he is as a person. On the other hand, he concludes that Hamlet still has his integrity and still has his own great potential.
Fyre get's to the point, where everyone has the same idea, where the mind is the answer for everything. Although it is just round shape composed of lobes and all kinds of important stuff, most philosophers believe it is the "key" of why a human is, what it is. After taking a few classes myself, I don't believe they are crazy anymore, the brain IS the main thing, it IS what makes our ideas become actions. The "claustrophobia of consciousness", as Fyre said, is what leads and idea to an actual action. He mentions that is is the only way to be let out of your "prison" by actually committing the act and afterwards having some kind of release. I do agree with this intellectual idea, the only problem is that depending on the action, lets say in Hamlets case, which is killing his own uncle, can it cause more claustrophobia of the guilt afterwards?
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