"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" brings a very hidden aspect to Hamlet. This quote speaks to me that what everybody else is seeing from the outside may not be how it really is on the inside and secondly it's a method to distraction. Hamlets diversion is a key component to this play especially in the first acts of the play, miss guiding everyone of his shrewd persona. Polonius states this quote in act two scene two to justify why he was spying on Hamlet. Polonius believes Hamlet is sane but thinks he is acting out as a distraction or a “method”. this partially confirms to hamlet that polonius is on to what he is doing and his technique to mislead others. This quote is so important because it was the first time anyone was really able to see what hamlet was doing and how he was fooling everyone.
Tone was more than pressing to keep track of in this play because without knowing the tone, a lot of the lines could have been misinterpreted . happy definitely wouldn't be the word I would use to describe the tone of this play. try fearful, clever, mournful, mocking, paranoid, the list could really go on forever. The central theme wasn't hard to recognize either. I found the theme to portray that even though what your seeing from the outside may not make sense, it does to the person on the inside. its weird because my mom used to always tell me "trust me it may not make sense what im doing now, but it will later". and that's mainly why I chose this quote because as soon as we talked about it in class I automatically made the connection to what my mother had said. nobody knew what hamlet was doing, they just though he was crazy. but sooner then later they all discovered that he really hadn't gone mad at all. that in fact, they all were the mad ones.
