Hamlet was a young man who lost his father, the King of Denmark, to an early death, therefore; he was mourning his father's death and this kind of thing doesn't make him crazy crazy because his mother and uncle believed that he was grieving his father's death for a long time, and just a few months after his father's death his mother she betrayed him by marrying her uncle her father brother, and Hamlet was angry about this. She felt like her father had just died and they were disrespecting him by getting married shortly after his death. Then after all this pain and betrayal, he finds out that his father was killed by his uncle, and his mother knew everything, so now the pain and betrayal turns into anger because now he has to avenge his father's death. Furthermore, Hamlet loved and cared for Ophelia with his heart and soul, and believed that she loved him too, but he discovered that she was also betraying him for her father who works for King Claudius. Now Hamlet did not know who to trust and how he would get revenge for his father. As a young man he has a lot to think about and has been betrayed, grieving for your father, and discovers that the person he loved has betrayed him too; he fell into depression over all of this, but knew he had to stay strong to get his father's revenge. Hamlet was mad, but not the madman as if he was wildly impractical or with foolish ideas, but more in terms of pain and felt a lot of betrayal from the people he cared about; therefore, Hamlet acted as if he was going mad because he did not want Claudius to know that he knew he had killed his father and to hide the pain he was feeling. Hamlet was a teenager with a lot of hormones raging like many kids do. He receives the news of his father's death and, like any child, suffers from losing his father... middle of paper... tormented and betrayed by people who he thought would keep him safe. He was mad, mad or mad, how could he get the revenge he needed? People can play like crazy, but still stay in the right mind, and that's what Hamlet did. Therefore I did not think that Hamlet was mad in this disordered sense of intellect; crazy; crazy but he was crazy in this sense, anger and rage because as a human being you would feel this emotion after going through the things he went through. This madness is either real, or it is a false "outdated disposition." (Scenes of Act 1.5, lines 181). Hamlet was sane throughout the play and plays the role of the madman well. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. Literature "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark": an introduction to reading and writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts. 9th edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. Print