Hamlet
In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet never loses his sanity, in his plan to feign madness. Hamlet tells Horatio and Guildenstern that he is feigning his madness. Hamlet only acts mad around characters whom he has suspicion of their knowledge concerning his father's death. Hamlet professes to his mother that he is merely acting insane. Hamlet tells Horatio and Guildenstern that he is feigning his madness. Hamlet has spoken with the ghost and has learned of the wrongdoings in his father's death. He later speaks with Horatio concerning his future actions "'As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/ to put an antic disposition on . . ..'" It is after this statement that Hamlet begins to act mad. In the next Act, Hamlet speaks with Guildenstern and tells him that his "' . . . uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.'" Guildenstern asks Hamlet what he means by this and Hamlet profes
Hamlet is putting on an act, a deception in order to confirm who was involved in his father's death. Hamlet only acts mad around characters whom he has suspicion of their knowledge concerning his father's death. Acting quickly, Hamlet assumes the role of insanity in an effort to confirm his suspicions about his father's death "' . He uses the play "The Mousetrap" and his dialogues with these characters as a means of unmasking the truth in his father's murder. though this be madness, yet there be method in't. In a dialogue with Ophelia, Hamlet uses their relationship to further people's beliefs that he is in fact, mad. '" This proved to be very effective, for it made Polonius believe he [Hamlet] was mad. Since his mother could not see the ghost, this insures her belief that Hamlet is mad.
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