Much Madness is Divinest Sense

This poem, Like Barbie Doll, also is critisizing society's view on uniquness. Society is the opinion of the majority of people. The poem claims that if you agree with society's beliefs then society will say you are sane. However, the author says that in reality, the person who forms their own opinion is actually the sane one who thinks on their own. This poem uses the paradox, madness equals sense while sense equals madness, to prove a point. IF people always alow others to make decisions for them then they have given up their own thinking process and are there for mad. This was an interesting idea that can easily be realated back to The Barbie Doll peom. If the girl were never told by society athat she was ugly she may have been able to make the decision to be happy with herself and would not have given up her uniqueness.