Hamlet was a man that will be studied for the rest of time. The complication of the story is enough to raise argument let alone Hamlet the man. Was Hamlet crazy? Nobody knows and will ever know. The entire play there are signs of his insanity but there are also signs that he was putting a big joke on to the people around him that he so hated and distrusted. His true character is never revealed throughout the entire play. The identities and changes he goes through prove that. Many things happened around him and he was in the heart of them. His attitudes throughout the play reflect his turmoil inside of him. Every new thing that came his way he had a different way of looking at or dealing with. He was never completely honest with himself let alone anyone around him, even his closest peers. The killing of a harmless man showed how much pain he was in. He may have become crazy over it. Putting trust into a ghostlike figure that could led to his downfall in the end. All these are factors that played a role in his insanity.
             The attitude as well as the identity of Hamlet was never the same throughout the play. In the opening he seemed confused and almost apathetic. It seemed he had given up on life to a point. Everything in his life was not worth caring about. His father had died before the play had opened which was a life crusher to Hamlet. Hamlet senior was someone that Hamlet loved and respected with all his heart. What made the situation of Hamlet's feelings worse was when his mother marries King Hamlet's brother Claudius. Hamlet could forgive him for taking over the kingship and not caring about his father. He despised his mother for marrying after just two months of his father's death had passed. His heart was filled with turmoil and grief that could not be expressed or let go of. Hamlet let no one into his heart. He showed no signs of happiness and this is obvious in act I scene II when the first...