Hamlet and madness
Hamlet and Madness I do not believe that Hamlet is going mad nor insane. I think that he was just putting on an act of madness to convince people he was going insane in order to carry out his revenge on Claudius. If it wasn’t for Hamlet’s feigned madness the Claudius would have obviously known that something was up and would have possibly had Hamlet killed. Hamlet only acted mad or insane around certain people. ... Hamlet tells Horatio “How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself, As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet To put on an antic disposition on, - That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, With arms encumber’d thus. ... In this phrase He is telling Horatio that he is going to feign madness, and that if he notices any strange behavior that he is putting on an act. ... Then Hamlet says “O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.