Hamlet being
nuts is definitely a possibility, especially after seeing how he reacts to
things. But in all senses, he really is not crazy at all. When he first saw his
dad as a ghost and had a conversation with him is when he may start to be
considered a little bit crazy because he is talking to a ghost and that has not
been proven really that that is possible. When given the task to enact revenge
on his uncle/new father, he doesn’t go out and immediately do it. He wants to
plan it out and make sure it is the right way to do it, and with him wanting to
do it right, it may seem that he is not the sanest person out there. He really just
wants to make sure that Claudius can realize what he did wrong and also bring
out the guilt in him and his mother, Gertrude.
In the
time period that Hamlet was written,
it was not totally wrong that someone can kill someone, at least not as big of
punishment as it would be modern-day. With Hamlet needing to enact revenge for
his father’s death, it is almost alright for him to do so. Especially after
finding out that Claudius, who was supposed to be his uncle at the time,
murdered his own father and then goes out and marries Hamlets mom, Claudius’s
sister-in-law, it seems that he should do something to show how much his father
meant to him and that this kind of sick and twisted marriage scheme should not
be tolerated. So no, Hamlet is not crazy, he has strong family morals and wants
to preserve his fathers memory.
