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Hamlet wasn't crazy. Hamlet was the "Rennisance Man". He ponders everything....he tries to figure out what he can do to make things right. He was trying to convince people that he was mad. He did a very good job at this, it was all part of his plan to avenge his father's death...he didn't want to outright kill Claudius, because he would probably have gone ot Heaven, and Hamlet wanted to make him suffer. And he did in the end when he realizes he killed his own wife on accident. Well, what Shakespeare meant by that line won't ever been known (because none of us can go back in time and ask him), but I think he meant exactly what it says, mad men with power is not a good mixture.Posted by Erick on April 14, 1997 at 06:14:08
In Reply to "Not much to it" posted by Hamlet on April 11, 1997 at 09:43:47
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