Hamlet

Not so often people go mad to take revenge but; however, one such notable character, Hamlet, uses such ‘antic disposition’ to fool his opponents. Hamlet's "antic disposition" can easily be understood, through examples of Hamlet's unpredictable attitude changes, slaughter of innocents, and interactions with the ghost of his father, to be only the "tip of the iceberg" concerning his unstable mental state. Hamlet does fake his madness; although, ‘there is method in it’. For a …

…is in fact method to Hamlet’s madness and is not that of what characters say it to be. It is not for the love of Ophelia nor is it for the grief over his father’s death but as a masquerade, or a deception to those less cunning, to get to his final and just goal of the murder of Claudius. Madness is not always as modern society would think of it to be.