Was Hamlet Really Going Insane

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So thought the play hamlet was faking going insane. But was he really going insane? Many people wonder if he by acting insane was really going insane. In my opinoin is that he was not going insane, he has to go insane to complete the mission his dead dad wants to be done. In the story in the being his dad died, but later he finds out that his uncle killed him after all. Now he does not know what to do with his uncle. His mother ends up marrying his uncle and Hamlet starts questioning her because in the begining she acts all sad, but when she gets married she is all happy. Many things are happening to him that maybe are making go insane

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