Sane or Insane

I will be discussing if Hamlet is really insane or if he is just acting. My thoughts at the beginning of the book were he was just acting different and weird for the attention because of his fathers death. He was torn at the fact of his mother marrying his dead fathers brother. But as the novel continued Hamlet started to do things that didn't make it seem like he just wanted attention. Such as, when he thought the ghost that has come to him was really the Devil and was just trying to stir up more tension and cause problems. Also when Hamlet arranges for his own friends to be murdered.

When one is crazy of insane they are the ones that are in denial. Hamlet doesn't think he is insane but that everyone around him is. He over reacts many times and make others scared because of the way he is acting.

At the moment when Hamlet is wanting to kill Claudius while he is praying, he over thinks the entire situation because he isn't thinking straight anymore. He has the most perfect chance but then thoughts start wondering through his head and he can't get himself to do it because he wants Claudius to die and suffer in Hell.

During the scene of the play Hamlet puts on his own little show for the audience. He lies his head in Ophilia's lap at asks "lady should I lie in your lap”. He has stopped caring what others think of him, he is just now living because his father came back from the dead and told him to kill Claudius and that is his motivation.