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Is Hamlet Insane Or Not Insane? That Is The Question Though Hamlet is not mad, because of his retainment of rational thoughts and intelligent actions, it is evident that he is, however, emotionally disturbed. The beginning of the play immediately lets the audienc ....

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.... about Claudius in order to avenge his father’s death. This is a truly ingenious plan in order for Hamlet to gain what he needs. He has made believers out of those around him that he is mad (when actually is not). Polonius says to Ophelia “That [rejected love from her] hath made him mad” (94). The king, however has a different opinion that “since nor th’ exterior nor the inward man resembles that what it was. What it should be, more than his father’s death, that thus hath put him so much from the understanding of himself I cannot dream of” (96). For this very reason he has requested that Hamlet’s friends from childhood, Ro ....