William Shakespeare has been dead for almost four hundred years. Yet he is a household name, is discussed in English and literary classes across the globe, and is still assigned to high school students every year. In his play The Tragedy of Hamlet the main character is struck with emotions such as grief, betrayal, and mourning because of the loss of his father. Throughout the play Hamlet our protagonist slowly begins to go mad…or so it seems. Our protagonist Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Hamlet is not actually going insane but is merely putting on an act as to keep Ophelia safe, angry at his uncle and new stepfather, and paranoid and scared of what will come of the kingdom and his ghost of a father. In