The Shakespearean play, Hamlet, illustrates how a perfectly organized plan can work precisely throughout the process but end up being a complete failure. The main character, Hamlet, manifests his feelings through behavior considered madness. After encountering the ghost of his father, Hamlet shows signs of madness, but furthermore, reflecting Hamlet's actions more deeply, his sanity is extremely clear throughout the play. Even though he was considered crazy by most people, we take note of his statement that he warned Horace of a possible change in his behavior by giving him "an old-fashioned disposition", which he certainly ratifies, in addition to the way he acts when dealing with events difficult, that he wasn't crazy at all. It is important to point out that the reason why Hamlet behaved this way is because of the tragic death of his father. This also highlights that perhaps he wanted to act this way as a result of his desire to confuse the king and be able to express some of his angry feelings against the king while he was considered mad. As mentioned before, part of his feigned madness perhaps took place as a plan to confuse the king. When speaking to Horatio after meeting the ghost, he states: "How strange or strange I behave, / As perhaps hereafter I shall think fit to put an ancient disposition upon..." (I.5.170-175). While this strategy might be debated, we all know one thing: only a sane man could come up with such a well-organized plan or idea. Hamlet's plan to feign madness allows him to express his feelings, make new plans, and obtain information, in order to kill Claudius, and obviously people will not take his actions seriously. In the play, he demonstrates this amply when he expresses sexual comments to...... middle of paper ......m left in England to kill him, it certainly illustrates to us that Claudius is aware of Hamlet's knowledge regarding the murder of his father. Maybe because of the play, or maybe for another reason, but this confirms that Claudius does not believe in Hamlet's madness. So why should we? Finally, undeniable evidence of Hamlet's rational ability is shown in his confrontation with a truly mad individual, just as Ophelia went mad after her father's death. He began to sing and speak nonsense; "half sense: his speech is nothing" (IV. 5. 7). While Ophelia truly went mad, Hamlet conducts a rational progression in all of his actions and words throughout the play. In conclusion, although there are several opinions that assure that many scenes show signs of Hamlet's madness, when you look more closely at the textual evidence, it is really unlikely that Hamlet actually went mad..