Why Him?

This afternoon I was called to the scene of a crime. A man had been stabbed in what was self defense. A man named Peter called 911 to report that a man named Jerry had started a fight with him in the middle of the park. Jerry had pulled out a knife and then dropped it as soon as he pulled it out. Peter then picked up the knife and that’s when Jerry charged at him and was stabbed.

Peter had fled the crime scene at first because he was so afraid but then came back to talk to police on what had happened. He was so flustered that he could barely speak, so the police allowed me to talk to him and try and calm him down. I asked him what happened and he said

“Earlier that morning when I woke up I stubbed my toe while walking to the bathroom. Then spilt my coffee on my pressed dress shirt. I could tell this was not gonna be my day. So I decided to take a walk in the park and read a book. That’s when my whole life changed.” That’s pretty much all he had to say. He was scared to answer any questions really because he didn’t want to say the wrong thing. He wasn’t going to speak until he had an attorney.

So a couple of days later the police then came to me with some very troubling news. Jerry the man who died had some criminal charges against him already and also spent a couple of months in a mental institution. After Peter decided to speak he had said “Jerry said that he had been to jail before and that he never wanted to go back. He would do anything not to go back to jail.” So that being said I figured I should really look into the reason why Jerry died and what he might have been thinking, I mean who drops a knife and then charges and runs right into the knife and dies. I started to look up Jerry to see if he had and criminal charges going against him that were recent. And low and behold he had a couple of drug charges and a robbery charge and was due to go to court the day after his death. Jerry could have been going to jail for 5 years if he would have been found guilty. Then my mind started running maybe Peter did stab Jerry in self defense but maybe Jerry wanted Peter to end his life. This would explain why he dropped the knife and why he ran into the knife. After his quote about never wanting to go back to jail I feel like he thought that this was the only way that he could never go back to jail. And that was to kill himself. Jerry must not have had the nerve to do it himself so he used Peter as a scapegoat and now Peters life has been turned upside down.

Torn in Two

When the subject Hamlet checked into our facility I could tell that there was some definite inner struggles going on within this persons self conscious. Hamlet who had recently lost his father was struggling with his fathers death and on top of that with how his father had died. Then to make things worse his mother remarried his Uncle Claudius. This infuriated Hamlet and in return caused him to resent his mother too. Now I believe that Hamlet could have overcome these feelings of resentment and hatred but he started to see his father in the form of a ghost. And the ghost of his father was telling him how Claudius had murdered murdered him. This caused him to forget trying to mend things with his uncle and mother and turn to finding ways to take out his uncle. He was torn into two pieces one being the person who wanted to kill and the other ego was talking him out of killing. He was becoming very harsh and would have random acts of violence.
 

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So when I look at Hamlet I see someone that could have avoided all of this violence that he was throwing on to other people instead of the one person whom he wanted to kill. If it wasn't for his indecisiveness and this ego that he had that was trying to stop him, he could have saved his sanity. I’m not saying that the act of murder in any way, shape, or form is right but in this case I think it would have been the thing to do. Only because the real person who murdered his father was not being brought to justice so Hamlet could have taken it into his own hands and then his killing of Claudius could have been justified. I believe the justification for Hamlet killing Claudius would have been if he killed my father than he deserves to die too. And since the penalty for murder is death there would be no need for a trial. The killing of Claudius might have saved Hamlet from going crazy but that did not happen. He was torn and once that happened he had no chance in turning back.
 
Hamlet is going through some very intense questioning to diagnose what might be wrong with him but until then he will be held in solitary confinement. We don’t want him to take his violence out on the other patients, so when he gets that under control we can let him start to interact with them to maybe get back into a normal way of living life.

(Note: This is my version of Hamlet so the story ends different in the original story)