I found this video clip very interesting because these two people became Hamlet and Don Quixote having a rap battle dissing about their madness.
Justification of ‘Madness’ has become a certain topic in literary work throughout the centuries. Shakespeare’s hamlet and Cervantes’ Don Quixote both contain characters that use madness to excuse their actions in their lives respectively. These two heroes, Hamlet and Don Quixote are quite identical in the system of their madness throughout the story. Don Quixote and Hamlet both show a heroic desire to actualize their ideal worlds into a reality through their madness.
Don Quixote is usually considered to be an idealistic, enthusiastic, and unselfish character; on the other hand Hamlet is a skeptical, melancholic, and self-conscious thinker. Hamlet, filled with revenge, seeks justice for the unexplained sudden death of his father. Hamlet does not sacrifice his own life but dreams and acts without losing his reason. On the other hand, Don Quixote is a knight who lost his mind in love of tales of chivalry and decides to live his life devoted towards gaining honor through his encounters. He can also be called ‘the waking dreamer’, acting like a maniac. He wanders in his dreaming reality saving the weak, the poor and the deprived. Throughout the story, while he tries to keep his role of a knight, he even happens to encounter psychic and physical breakdown.
Hamlet and Don Quixote share similar character roles of convincing those around them that they have gone mad. Specifically, Hamlet uses the death of his father to excuse his unpredictable behaviors towards others, while Don Quixote and his friend Sancho travel to find honor in the name of his knight title. Although there are some differences between Don Quixote and Hamlet, they do have basic similarities; exemplifying a heroic type of character who desperately seeks to achieve the insanity dream in order to confront the doubtful, dangerous and strange world. To conclude Don Quixote and Hamlet both show a heroic desire to actualize an ideal world into a reality through their dream and madness.