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First of all, I do not believe that Hamlet is truly crazy. I think that he has emotional problems and tends to be depressed, but I do not believe that he is crazy.
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Hamlet himself, in the play by William Shakespeare, seems to be asking himself the same question in his speech about whether it is nobler in the mind 'to suffer the slings and arrows of...
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In Shakespeare's play Hamlet is pretending to be mad/crazy. He has good reason to feel crazy. His father's ghost is seeking vengeance for his murder. Hamlet's mother married his father's murder. Hamlet may be interested in his mother in an unsonly manner.
Hamlet is developing a plan to obtain revenge for his father's death. By pretending that he is mad, he is making himself look like he is not a threat. He does talk to himself a lot, but that is because he is moody and debating his own actions. His situation is a difficult one to resolve.
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