In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, many people believe that Hamlet has gone insane as he acts like a mad man in many parts of the play. He is able to fool those closest to him that he has gone crazy. However, the way that he is able to deal with one tragedy after another and how he shows level headedness and rationality in many situations and the way in which he feigns madness so that he can avenge his fathers murder shows us that he is anything but insane. Was he really insane or so fraught from his father’s murder that he plotted his insanity? Hamlet himself says, “That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.” Anyone who has lost a father or someone close to him may be able to relate to him and how he is dealing with this event,
