Is Hamlet Mad Or Insane

Throughout this play, Hamlet has been under an enormous amount of pressure. His father has been killed, he became depressed, and wanted to commit suicide. These things that have happened to him, or people around him, have created a mental freak out of Hamlet. Infact, since the very beginning, Hamlet has acted like a mad person. No point during this play has he not been insane.

In the early couple of stages during this play, Hamlet sees a ghost. One would think that this is real and just part of the story, until you find out that his mother does not see the ghost (the mother is mentally stable.) This is a sign of madness because it could mean that Hamlet is possibly hallucinating. Later, Hamlet makes the prediction that the ghost he is seeing is his father. Then he later changed
A human is not meant to cope with so much anxiety, this resulted in Hamlet letting it all out. But instead of letting it out on a pillow or something, he let it all out on Polonius by killing him. We agree that Hamlet has been through alot, but that does not allow him to murder anybody. One would have to be a mental wreck to kill somebody because of your own problems. That is why this is the second reason Hamlet is a mad man.

Since the beginning of the play, Suicide seemed like a viable solution to all of Hamlet's problems. This is because Hamlet does not seem capable of overcoming his own problems. "O, that this too sullied flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into dew, or that Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, O God, How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Selem to me all the uses of this world?" (Act 1 Sc.2) This is the final and most relevant reason for proving Hamlet is truly mad because of one sentence; to terminate one's self existence is to go against basic human