HAS HAMLET GONE MAD??? Hamlet was the prince of Denmark, son of the assassi-nated King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude, and nephew to Claudius. Hamlet, (during the play) goes through some very troubling situations in which he seems to act in an insane manner. But I am convinced that he was '...not in madness, but mad in craft.' I also believe that he was a man of high moral standards, in fact higher than …showed first 75 words of 678 total…

…showed last 75 words of 678 total…figured out the King's plot and reversed it so that the treacherous Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were executed instead. Hamlet, having possessed so many qualities and demon-strated rational and wise thought time and time again, was in my opinion totally sane and perhaps even brilliant in some ways. I conclude that Hamlet was more than simply a troubled young man and, because of his decency and his un-derstanding of his culture's expectations, acted as he did.