Hamlet

Hamlet Crazy or Not In the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, there is more reason to believe that Hamlet was just pretending to be mad. There are two main reasons why this is so. Hamlet, in the beginning says that he will pretend to be crazy in order to avenge his father’s death, and the many things he does in order to accomplish this shows that he is not crazy. Also, when he is with people he trusts, it is obvious that his madness is just an act. These two reasons show that Hamlet was just pretending to be crazy. The fact that Hamlet says he will act crazy and certain things he does in the play shows that he is not really crazy. After meeting with his father’s ghost, Hamlet says that he will, “put an antic disposition on” (I,v,192), in order to get revenge for the murder of his father. The quote itself proves he was just acting crazy. Hamlet also thinks of a plan to make the actors act out a play similar to the way his father was murdered to, “make mad the guilty and appall the free” (II,ii591), in order to see if crazy, hamlet, act, people, just, claudius, says, acts, things, trusts, order, madness, mad, trust, shows, show, right, reasons, really, pretending, play, father, because, after, able, while, two, think, tells, sane, reason, proves, plan