Part one of term paper
Hamlet’s Insanity…is it real? In William Shakespeare’s Play Hamlet, many issues have been raised about Hamlet’s over all sanity. He has experienced many things that might make one think he has gone crazy, for example, his father’s murder, killing Polonius accidentally, and his mother’s abrupt remarriage. H ...

Part two of term paper
... that Hamlet is sane. Hamlet was not actually insane, it was simply a ploy to seek revenge for his father’s murder. Wells, in his article “Was Hamlet Mentally Disturbed?” stated that Hamlet is truly insane. In the first act Hamlet appears to be crazy when he hears of his father’s murder. He speaks irrationally to Horatio, who comments that Hamlet is speaking “ wild and whirling words”(I.v.149). Also, Hamlet plays with Horatio and will not tell him what the ghos ...