Hamlet: To Be Mad, Or Not To Be Mad? In Shakespeare's classic play Hamlet, many people look at it from two very different point of views. Each of them changes the outcome of the story. Hamlet mentions many times in the play that he is not crazy but only acting crazy to avenge his father's death. The way that people look at the situation makes the outcome very important. Now from the beginning of the play Hamlet is debating on how to handle the revenge of his Dads death. The plan that he goes with first is to act like he is crazy or Hamlets words "As perchance to put on antic disposition." That is the first big clue that he is just acting. Now the reasoning fo