Hamlet: Feigned Madness William Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet is full of fascinating characters. The most interesting and complex character is the main character, Hamlet. Hamlet delays in killing his uncle and this delay could be taken as a sign of weakness and cowardice, and that he must be truly insane. Hamlet is neither weak nor a coward by any means. Hamlet does not lose his sanity at any time; he feigns madness and delivers image-laden speech so as to confuse his opponents and to hide his true feelings toward them until he has the proof needed to act. This feigned madness allows him to rant and rave with his images of sickness and disease, all the while trying to unmask those who are guilty. The question of whether Hamlet’s madness is real or pretend depends on the definition of madness. If the term includes being very annoyed, then Hamlet might be called mad. If, on the....

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