Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a most enigmatic and complex character, his psyche the subject of more detailed psychoanalysis than any other character in English literature. It is only once in a great while that the reader of literature comes across a man who fakes madness, and ultimately immerses himself so deep into this feigned madness to a point of total metamorphosis into a new being. Hamlet’s ostensibly concocted madness ultimately catalyzes the development of …showed first 75 words of 1226 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1226 total…within him. Within him lurked bubbled the desire to avenge his father’s death. Fabricating a madness proved to be counter-productive because Hamlet ended up suffering from a disease he created to help himself. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is as much about normal, sane men as it is about Hamlet. It is true that Hamlet developed this natural inclination, however one must recognize that he caused his own insanity and pity the callow orphan for that.