Has Hamlet really gone mad? Hamlet being "mad" or pretending to be "mad" is one of the main concerns of the play. Hamlet states in tthroughout the play that he is not insane. "I essentially not in madness, But mad in craft." He plans to act insane, in order to figure out the truth behind his fathers death. Later, Hamlet himself wonders if he is not truly mad, after he is accused of being mad by his mother when he is cought talking to an unheard ghoast. Hamlet convinces his mother, Polonius, and Claudius that he is insane. Although Polonius see's Hamlets plot behind his madness. Polonius claims, " though this be madness, yet there is method in't.." Claudius knows Hamlet is trying to stir up the past, he is scaret. Trying to get Hamlet out of