o cope with all that has transpired. The death of his father, the all too soon remarriage of his mother to his uncle. All of these events shook Hamlet's faith in the way of things ("...'tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature..."). I do believe I would act much the same. As the events unfold we see Hamlet growing more and more crafty in the way he deals with these problems. He tasks the players to enact a play which has the same qualities / events in how Claudius killed Hamlet's father. Hamlet then instructs Horatio to watch the kings' reaction to the play. This shows a cunning, sly and sane mind. The ability to set a trap does not prove sanity but, for the reasoning of it does. Hamlets "mad" actions can be explained away. His boarding of the pirate ship alone, since he knows he is on his way to England to die, what has he to lose? His seemingly arbitrary killing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is justified in the fact that they plotted with

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Approximate Word count = 660
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)