Discussing Hamlet 's sanity leads the audience to …show more content…
One must ask: If the goal of the ghost is to be revenged, why is it so secret a mission and why may only Hamlet can know of it? Why not expose Claudius in front of other people? If revenge is of key importance, then why not simply haunt Claudius, make him appear insane and thereby lose the confidence of the Danish people? The ghost, whether a fiendish manifestation or the incarnation of Hamlet’s father, surely had to know Hamlet 's weaknesses, his inability to act, his tendencies to over think every action. This leads one to believe the ghost was at best inefficient in its selection of Hamlet, or there is more than simple revenge at the heart of the ghost’s