Hamlet: Was he insane or sane? In Shakespeare’s "Hamlet", there are many events throughout the play that present a theme of madness. Shakespeare provides the reader with evidence concerning Hamlet's sanity beginning with the first scene of the play. The guards, whose main purpose in the play was to give credibility to the ghost of Hamlet’s dead father, approach Hamlet with an ominous sighting. Hamlet's actions led everyone, except Horatio to believe that …showed first 75 words of 610 total…

…showed last 75 words of 610 total…was that he was sane, proven by his clear thinking while he stopped Horatio from killing himself. The other path Hamlet could take was where he was insane, due to the fact that he was betrayed. He lost the two women in his life, and his father was murdered by his own uncle. That alone can cause a person to go insane, and that is why so many people believe he was insane. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**