Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" is about a complex protagonist, Hamlet, who faces adversity and is destined to murder the individual who has killed his father. Hamlet is a character who, although his actions and emotions may be those of an insane person, early in the book it is clear that Hamlet decides to feign madness so that his plan will succeed in killing Claudius. Hamlet is sane because throughout the play he only acts crazy in front of some people, towards others he acts correctly and displays proper princely behavior, able to handle them without having the he looks crazy, and even after everything that has happened in his life, he manages to take revenge by killing his father's killer. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is sane but acts like a madman to fulfill his destiny of taking revenge on his father's murderer. Hamlet throughout the play seems crazy, but in reality it is just an act to achieve his goal of killing his father's murderer. Hamlet chooses to go mad to gain an advantage over his opponent and as he is the prince of Denmark, certain behaviors are unacceptable, so by feigning madness he is able to get away with inappropriate words and actions. This can be seen when he speaks to Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia and his mother. When Hamlet speaks to Horatio in the first act, he says that he is going to "feign madness" and that: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than your philosophy dreams of." .How strange or strange some things are. uh, I allow myself (as I will perhaps think later to put an antique disposition) that you, seeing me in such moments, will never do it, with the arms encumbered like this, or this nod of the head, or in uttering some questionable phrase. .let's enter together...... middle of paper ...... sane because he is fully aware of his surroundings and before acting he always rationalizes everything. He feigns madness so that he can say and do things that please him. a crazy person would do, but internally he is aware of what he is doing and we know he is not crazy but he acts like a crazy person in front of certain people. His way of thinking is like that of a normal individual, if an individual was crazy he wouldn't do it. You have to think about everything and if someone were crazy, they certainly wouldn't have the ability to outwit someone, like Hamlet outwitted Claudius. All these reasons and more are why Hamlet is not crazy, he is as sane as anyone else, but unlike others he had to go through a lot of emotional pain and a feeling of abandonment to reach a point of success in one's life. .Works CitedShakespeare, William. New York: Washington Square, 2004. Print.