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Irrational Decision Making In Hamlet

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In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, many of the characters that Shakespeare creates, if not all of them, are notorious for their highly irrational decision making. Throughout the entire play, all of the characters make decisions that are not the most logical when you analyze them. Even though their decisions prove irrational, their decisions also prove to be predictable due to behavioral economics. Behavioral economics is defined by Wikipedia as the study of the effects of psychological, social, cognitive and emotional factors on the economic decisions of individuals. Behavioral economics is able to shed light on some of the choices made in Hamlet. Ophelia is Prince Hamlet’s love interest in the play. Her father, Polonius, and her brother, Laertes,

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