Hamlet

Hamlet In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlets sanity is looked at from two different perspectives. Is Hamlet a sane man acting mad, or is he really a mad man. There are many “ clues “ presented during the play that lead to the notion that Hamlet is only acting the role of madness. As Hamlet mentions several times in the play that he is not crazy, but only acting crazy to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet has many reasons to be insane. He was visited by his fathers’ ghost who tells him that Hamlets Uncle Claudius has murdered him, and that Hamlet must take revenge upon his uncle. While pondering whether or not to avenge his fathers’ death, Hamlet assumes the role of insanity to confirm his suspicions of Claudius’ involvement. Throughout the course of the play Hamlet admits to certain people that he is putting on an act of insanity, and plays this cruel act role only to people whom he can not trust. Hamlet’s logic for acting crazy is part of his plan, so that when he kills Claudius it looks like a spur of the moment accident, and not like a Premeditated murder, hoping in the long run to save his hamlet, crazy, claudius, man, death, after, time, play, hamlets, acting, truly, sane, role, out, ophelia, mad, killed, ghost, waited, uncle, shared, run, right, really, question, planning, people, murder, madness, life, lead, killing, kill, insanity, insane