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Crazy, or not crazy- That is the question. The matter of Hamlet's so called madness, has been an item of debate since the first performance, and will probably be a continuing argument well into the future. I believe Hamlet was not crazy, because he proves to be ....

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.... he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors,” (2.1.92)and grabbed her and examined her face. Then he let out ”a sigh so piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being.” (2.1.106) After that incident, Polonius believes, that Hamlet's madness “is the very ecstasy of love.”(2.1.115) Claudius is convinced, however, that that is not the case. He believes that something else is troubling Hamlet. “Love? His affections do not that way tend; Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little, was not like madness. there's something in his soul o'er which his melancholy sits on brood” (3.1.176) After ....