Hamlet

Hamlet was not insane at all; he was only pretending to be. My definition of insanity is when you don't know what you are talking about, you can't understand what is going on, you do something outrageous for no particular reason, or you do strange things constantly without even noticing it. Hamlet said that he himself was only mad sometimes. He tought things through before acting on them. Whatever Hamlet did he did it for a reason.

Hamlet said that he himself is only, "mad north-north-west." (Act II, Scene 2, Line 401) He meant he was only mad at certain times. You cannot be insane only at certain times. You are either insane or you are not insane. He knew his so called friends, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, were spying on him for Claudius. He was pretending to be insane so that he could later kill Claudius and get away with it by saying he was mad. He said he wasn't insane most of the time so that Guildenstern and Rosencrantz would tell the King he wasn't that crazy. Hamlet was only pretending to be mad some of the time. He did that so that he could get away with a few things.

Hamlet didn't do anything outrageous. Hamlet wanted to make sure that his father's ghost was telling the truth and he wasn't just some type of demon or devil. He had the idea and put together a play based on what happened to his father. He told the