There are many instances that support the idea that Hamlet is pretending to be crazy in the play. The plot begins when Hamlet's father's ghost appears and charges him to avenge his murder by assassinating Claudius. Upon accepting this he makes his companions swear never to reveal what has taken place on that evening. He tells them, " As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/ To put an antic disposition on. (1.5.191-192)." This clearly reveals that Hamlet is planning to act insane so he can achieve his murder plot. Through the next act Hamlet quickly demonstrates to the other characters that he is mad by playing as the victim of a passionate love affair with Ophelia. Polonius even connects Hamlets madness to "the very ecstasy of love (2.1.114.)."

However, when actually speaking in Ophelia's presence, Hamlet really seems to be unstable. Instead of simpl

Only through his mother's death was Hamlet able to accomplish his task. Clearly demonstrated, Hamlet was simply a too moral character to begin with. Such atrocities that he had to carry out were even too foul under normal circumstances no matter what pretense he puts on.

In order for Hamlet to finally carry out his task, he sees something in Fortinbras. It is the decisiveness of Fortinbras that impresses him and the battle he is about to wage. Hamlet upon seeing Fortinbras' decisiveness asks himself a question, " How stand I, then, /To have a father killed, a mother stained...And let all sleep, while to my shame I see the imminent death of twenty thousand men that go for a whim of fancy (4.4.59-61)." Hamlet then concludes "My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth (4.4.69)!"

y convincing her he is mad, he insults her by saying "get thee to a nunnery (3.1.131)." and saying that he never loved her. Later in the play, at Ophelia's funeral procession, Hamlet professes that he loved Ophelia more than "forty thousand brothers could have loved her". An explanation to this incongruity rests on Hamlet's relationship with his mother. In the mind of Hamlet he is naturally unstable when dealing with women because he believes his mother betrayed his father's memo

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