Hamlet is a play that is largely about a prince, Hamlet trying to get revenge on the man who commited his father 's murder. A question is raised however, which is that of whether or not he is sane or crazy. There are many scenes throughout the play in which he displays an almost crazed state of mind which cause many to question his sanity throughout the play. And so the question becomes was he faking it to see if his uncle truly murdered his father, or was he truly insane? It is my firm belief that he is faking it and is only using his facade to ensnare his uncle into a trap so that he can kill him. Before I get into the the evidence that will prove my points I would first like to go into a little set-up starting from the beginning of the play. When the play opens we …show more content…
This play demonstrates how cunning and intelligent he is, after all he did go to university and has been able to afford the best education money can buy because of his position, this is clearly not a dim man and this is show in both the way he executes his plan and in how he is simultaneously able to fool all those around him into thinking he is mentally unstable. Hamlet has only one goal throughout the majority of this play, and that is to achieve revenge on the person he believes to have murdered his father, and all the tactics he uses shows intelligence and fact checking that a unstable person wouldn 't be able to sustain throughout the entire play, unlike Hamlet. Just like Ophelia I feel Hamlet would have deteriorated much more rapidly and would have wound up committing suicide rather than complete his goal, and since she is the best example that is provided in the play as to what a mad person would do after their families untimely death, it leads me to believe that he is faking it just to get to his