Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" is about a complex protagonist, Hamlet, who faces adversity and is destined to kill the individual who killed his father. Hamlet is a character who, although his actions and emotions may be those of a mad person, at the beginning of the book it is clear that Hamlet decides to feign madness in order for his plan to succeed in killing Claudius. Hamlet is sane because throughout the play he behaves like a madman only in front of certain people, with others he behaves correctly and shows correct behavior, like a prince who is able to face them without seeming mad, and even after all that what happened in his life. Vita manages to take revenge by killing her father's killer. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is sane but acts madly to fulfill his destiny of taking revenge on his father's murderer. Hamlet throughout the play seems mad but in reality it is just an act to achieve his goal of killing his father's murderer. Hamlet chooses to go mad to have an advantage over his opponent and since he is the prince of Denmark certain behaviors are unacceptable, so by feigning madness he manages to get away with inappropriate sayings and actions. We can see this when he talks to Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia and his mother. When Hamlet speaks to Horatio in Act I, he says that he will "pretend to be mad" and that: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than your philosophy dreams of... How strange or strange some are and I tolerate (as perhaps I will later deem it appropriate to take an old-fashioned disposition) that you, seeing me at such moments, will never do so, with your arms thus encumbered, or with this shaking of the head, or uttering some doubtful phrase .let's go in together. ..... middle of paper ......healthy because he is fully aware of what surrounds him and before acting he always rationalizes everything he pretends to be crazy so he can say and do things that a crazy person would do, but internally he is aware of what he is doing and we know that he is not crazy but he acts crazy in front of certain people His way of thinking is like that of a normal individual, if an individual was crazy they wouldn't make him think about everything and if anyone was. mad surely would not have the ability to outsmart someone, as Hamlet outsmarted Claudius. All these reasons and many more are why Hamlet is not crazy, he is a healthy individual like everyone else, but unlike others he had to go through a lot of emotional pain and a sense of abandonment to reach a point of success in his life . .Works Cited Shakespeare, William. New York: Washington Square, 2004. Print.